Have you really read anything about this case? The one reporter who was about to speak with her said their phone interview was so sketchy that she came away from it not completely convinced that Katie Johnson exists. Her previous lawsuit didn’t even have a valid address attached to it, and her account of Jeffrey…

My impariality, oh really? Not that I need to prove anything to you, but I have years of commenting history on this site that does more than enough to acquit me against charges of being a secret Trump supporter or for generally being someone who is suspicious about people who come forward about their rapes. But…

Her identity wouldn’t be a secret to her rapist, of course.

That’s a possibility, but I don’t believe it. Secret death threats are not Donald’s style. He’s more the type to unmask her and publicly humiliate her, especially since it’s highly unlikely that this woman, if she is telling the truth, has the ability to actually prove her case against him.

I hate to be a Skeptical Sally here, but death threats to whom and from where? This woman’s identity is still a secret. Katie Johnson is a pseudonym.

It wasn’t just feelings. Him and others were pointing out it didn’t seem like the journalist interviewed the accused or the accuser’s friends, among other issues. He was blown off by Anna and others, people too committed to their narrative to judge things fairly (or even have a civil debate on the issues). Sounds like…

He pointed out that Erdley didn’t try and contact the rapists or Jackie’s friends. He didn’t just bring up “feelings.” Anna did by calling journalists who raised issues with the story “rape truthers.”

It aired 14 October. Surprisingly, no one from Jez reported on it.

She apologized after she was a 100% wrong, belittling little asshat. She doesn’t get props for apologizing, just like my ten year old doesn’t get praised for apologizing after hitting his sister. It’s absurd what we are praising here.

Ah, the journalist from Columbia’s schooling has finally come to completion. Maybe next time she won’t call people idiots who are inquiring about the potential innocence of accused. Maybe next time she might even let the legal system decide guilt and innocence and not her own spidey sense based on accusations.

She and the rest of the smug commenters will no doubt stubbornly refuse to learn anything from the episode.

The part of article, I could not understand why people did not question. In story from Jackie, she says she is gang raped on glass coffee table so severe, they break her through it, and they continue to rape her.

At least Robby Soave managed to get the story straight, which is more than Anne managed to do.

This gets me every time. The smug, condescending tone is just too rich. Life’s funny like that sometimes

I found this really interesting take on the matter when it ws unfolding, so to speak. Here, let me share it with you:

This is my first thought whenever I see an update on this story from Jez. Does it count as irony that the editors allow Anna to continue covering a story about journalistic malpractice? Not only was she flat out wrong, but argument was breathtakingly elitist.

Despite what you might prefer, one of those persons is a real person who was demonized unfairly by an incredibly flawed story in a national publication. The second person is fictionalized situation that you state is worse if it exists. This once again goes to what I was talking about. The damage to some cause or…

I do not mean to aim this at Anna (or just at Anna) because I honestly think she very gracefully apologized over it and has been doing great work on the story since then, but I don’t know if Jezebel in terms of the writers or commenters are the best people to tsk over the failure to rigorously fact check Jackie’s…

“Yeah, it’s truly awful. The worst part about it is how much it distracts from the very real problem of rape on campus, and gives fuel to the narrative that accusers are commonly lying about being raped.”

I’m pretty sure that the worst part of defaming someone in print as being callously indifferent to rape is the…

Yeah, and it wasn’t a failure to confront “the rapists”, if was a failure to make sure the people accused of rape even existed.