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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 hasn't 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. i'm sure rolling stone was saying, look this is all going on u now, let's put ours in the middle of this thing. and that may have dampened the other people that did get rap...

Story. >> we don't know all of the facts. we know the facts -- what's 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, there's a huge problem with campus rape in this country. you can't -- nothing about how this story proceeds will reduce that truth. it is the case i just think for all journalists institutions if you...

>> to my knowledge, jackie did not go to the police. she reported it confidentially to a university administrator. she didn't 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 didn't? it's a deeply shocking story. it's 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 story. >> taylor, in fact, did not the "rolling stone" piece include the information there was ...

There's 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. >> there's a problem with campus rape and that's been a problem with campus rape at the university of virginia. it's not that there's not a real problem. >> nobody is saying there is. >> the story exploded because of the problem. >> it's not a prejudice if you look at an institution where there have been problems in the past. >> i'm just repeating back what you said. >> i'm just -- >> i don't know whe...

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 don't 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 don't have to stand by my story because there are police records and medical records and there is one man who went to jail. i think the we rush to completely discredit this witness c...