It is beyond infuriating when people are so invested in a cause that they feel getting accurate information is somehow a disservice if it doesn't line up 100% with what they believe.

Your approach to being fine with punishing anything and everything frat "just because" is absurd.

The internet makes everything worse because it reduces other people to words on a screen.

This story needs so much fucking more coverage than it's getting. But how many times can you repeat, "Fucking nobody's doing anything. Nobody gives a fuck. They're still missing. They're still dead. Canada's government is still fucking horrifying."

I love how perfectly acceptable posts sit in the grey forever (provided Kinja doesn't eat them), but dead animals seem to catapult immediately into the black and sit there for hours.

(And, frankly, it could have been avoided, had Erdely been clearer in her disclosures about what she'd done to reach Jackie's alleged attackers

Because people on campus have figured out who they are? Because there's been aspersions cast on anyone belonging to the frat now? Just a guess.

It's also still true that this revelation is going to make it far more difficult in the future for reports to be taken seriously.

Perhaps Mr. Soave is available?

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Shouldn't all journalists be skeptics?

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It means that frat boys doubting it, Rolling Stone doubting it, anyone doubting it publicly — it doesn't change a damn thing for me. It was always doubtable because everything everyone says is doubtable, and I chose to believe it then and now. Calm down, "we're on the same side."

What she's saying is that she's willing to "believe" in the service of her cause, regardless of what the evidence shows. It's a round about way of admitting that she's an advocate rather than a journalist.

Anna's too busy scrabbling on the floor trying to find her dignity to protect any victim's at the moment. You had to know she was going to protect herself first if it came down to the wire.

Anna's too busy scrabbling on the floor trying to find her dignity to protect any victim's at the moment. You had to know she was going to protect herself first if it came down to the wire.

invested in the moral superiority of their cause

It confirms asshole's observer biases.

They retracted because they didn't do their due diligence and they now have doubts about the facts in their story. They also likely got an angry call from their legal department because reporting of this nature can expose you to some serious lawsuits.

It means that frat boys doubting it, Rolling Stone doubting it, anyone doubting it publicly — it doesn't change a damn thing for me. It was always doubtable because everything everyone says is doubtable, and I chose to believe it then and now. Calm down, "we're on the same side."