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Methodology. it was the collective fault of the reporter the editor the editors supervisor and the fact-checking department. >> rolling stone has officially retracted the article about an alleged gang rape after the release of a report that called the story a journalistic failure that was avoidable. the author issued a statement saying raiding a columbia account was a brutal and humbling experience. the article told a story by a woman named jackie that she was gang raped at the university of vir...

This failure was not the subjects or the sources fault as a matter of journalism. it was the product of failed methodology. it was the collective fault of the reporter, the editor, the editors supervisor and the fact-checking department. >> rolling stone has officially retracted the article about an alleged gang rape after the release of a report that called the story a journalistic failure that was avoidable. the author issued a statement saying raiding a columbia account was a brutal and humbl...

It was the product of failed methodology will. >> reporter: in its message from the editor "rolling stone" promised to improve practices and apologize to readers and to all of those who were damaged but everyone involved will keep their jobs. in the piece published last fall, a woman identified om as jackie claimed to have been sexually assaulted by seven men at the fraternity house. >> if this reporter had just contacted you, could all of this have been avoided? >> yeah. absolutely. >> reporter...

Nbc east nbcs gabe gutierrez has details from the campus. >> reporter: the fraternity at the center of the now retracted "rolling stone" article is planning to pursue legal action against the magazine saying it erroneously accused it of crimes its members did not commit. >> this report is very much intended as piece of journalism about a failure of journalism. >> reporter: the prestigious columbia university journalism school discussed scathing review of the article blaming not just its reporter...

Gang rape, the columbia university school of journalism said they failed basic and routine journalistic practice. they retracted the story and apologized to their readers. they also publiced columbias report online. dean of the journalism school and academic affairs. >> it was a product of failed methodology, and we didnt feel that her role in the story should be a subject of a report that was seeking accountability for a failure of journalism. it was the collective fault of the reporter, the ed...

Stone" magazine published a shocking story about a gang gang rape the columbia university school of journalism said they failed basic and routine journalistic practice. they retracted the story and apologized to their readers. they also publiced columbias report online. dean of the journalism school and academic affairs. >> it was a product of failed methodology, and we didnt feel that her role in the story should be a subject of a report that was seeking accountability for a failure of journali...

I looked ought a house in memphis, should i look at a thousand ads or is there a simple methodology and what house do i want? its a simple process to say, please dont start with the data start with the question you want toanceish and slowly do you get to the amount of data you want to deal with. >> did you apply there? >> the tieyranosarus cuff links. >> that tells me. >> he cant answer. >> he cant match these, thats why hes intimidating. >> hes thinking i dont know what this stros do with intel...

It was the product of failed methodology. and we didnt feel that her role in the story should be a subject of a report that was seeking accountability for a failure of journalism. >> joining me now to talk about what went wrong with this story and the possible legal rep cushions is cnn senior medial correspondent brian tell ter and joey jackson and danny cevallos. to the legal team, stand by for a moment. you and i know as journalists that one of our roles is to try to get your spidey senses tin...

Confidence in her credibility to take the place of more questioning and more facts." columbia journalism dean steve cole says "rolling stone" has tried to wrongly, quote, his words, "take shelter you under the claim that it failed because it was trying to protect the subject of the story." he says she bears no fault. >> we do disagree with any suggestion that this was jackies fault. as a matter of journalism, this was a failure of methodology and of policy and of practice. wasnt the subjects fai...

>> your name. >> that is steve coll addressing a crowd of reporters from columbia journalism school calling this not just a failure of journalism but saying rolling stone failed on every single level. if you want watching the news. "rolling stone" formally retracted its story late last night. they originally asked columbia journalism school to conduct this report. this report said at every level there was a failure of journalistic standards. you just heard the dean say it failed in methodology. ...