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Toward "rolling stone"? >> she told me from the very beginning that she stood by the story given to rolling stone. in subsequent conversations she and i had together, she told me that she did feel manipulated. she tried to put her stone story out there and then tried to pull back and the writer explained that wasnt going to happen. >> did she explain why she felt she was manipulated? >> not specifically, other than she had determined that she no longer wanted to participate in the article. >> a ...

Jackies story has fallen apart and thats true. but the uva rape story has not fallen apart. the part uva has a patrol with sexual assault, the bush administration, department of education found it in violation of federal law in the way that it handles -- in 200837. >> do you hear -- >> saying very, very important to point this out that uva has a problem. >> let me jump in. do you think that there are voices in the media as a result of this one story which you say which most people leads we dont ...

Jackies story has fallen apart and thats true. but the uva rape story has not fallen apart. the part uva has a patrol with sexual assault, the bush administration, department of education found it in violation of federal law in the way that it handles -- in 200837. >> do you hear -- >> saying very, very important to point this out that uva has a problem. >> let me jump in. do you think that there are voices in the media as a result of this one story which you say which most people leads we dont ...

Officer of the media storm. >> she stood by the story given in "rolling stone" and subsequently she told me she did feel manipulated and she tried to put her story out there and decided she wanted to pull back and writer said that want going to happen. >> did she explain why she felt manipulated? >> not specifically. just that she determined she no longer wanted to participate in the article. >> a lot more to find out about this tangled story but your reporting is exemplary and helped explain at...

Gathering evidence shortly after someone makes an accusation. thats it. you dont lower the burden of proof. >> does this fraternity have a case against rolling stone? >> if they have been harmed and they can prove theyve been harmed, i think so. >> well, and what about the fraternities, though, that are being told they cannot operate in the regular fashion? theyre trying to appeal that so they can open their doors as they have before. >> anyone can sue anyone for anything. its fairly difficult. ...

Campus rape because they thought it would be compelling. and he said he had an initial doubt when he first saw her reporting, but then he hasnt explained what happened. >> biassed reporting is one thing, if you have facts to back it up. but in this case, take it in the context of where they were writing the story, there had been the release of stories of a number of rapes at university of virginia that had been covered up. im sure rolling stone was saying, look this is all going on u now, lets p...

Story. >> we dont know all of the facts. we know the facts -- whats reported in the story we know is not true. >> what she told the "rolling stone" reporter is not true. i mean, even her friends that were saying this story was not true said that things did happen that night. specifically did happen. this story was not true. >> the way she described it was not true. >> seems to not be true. look, theres a huge problem with campus rape in this country. you cant -- nothing about how this story proc...

>> to my knowledge, jackie did not go to the police. she reported it confidentially to a university administrator. she didnt ask to be the spokesperson of campus rape. the question we need to ask ourselves as readers is why did this story blow up and others didnt? its a deeply shocking story. its not the only story of campus sexual assault and what appears to be an epidemic, both of campus rape and institutional indifference. that piece still remains regardless of what happens in this individual...

Theres a lot of red flags in some of the details in that story. you read it and thought this could be true but, boy, this is a really -- >> it conforms to pre-existing prejudices of the editors. >> theres a problem with campus rape and thats been a problem with campus rape at the university of virginia. its not that theres not a real problem. >> nobody is saying there is. >> the story exploded because of the problem. >> its not a prejudice if you look at an institution where there have been prob...

I also, you know, what rolling stone must do. but i think there is a bigger question raised. you know, rolling stone is a venerable publication. they have fact checkers, they have legal. so this story -- and i dont really want this to become about journalistic integrity although that is very important as you and i know. i think the conversation still needs to be about the fact that campus rape is very real. and i dont have to stand by my story because there are police records and medical records...