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Officially retracted the article. the review found the author, editors, and fact-checkers repeatedly neglected to take the basic steps to verify allegations that came from a single source. shortly after the review was posted on line, the author of the rolling stone article apologized for what happened. yeah, she says, reporting on rape has unique challenges, but the journalist still has the responsibility to get it right. i hope that my mistakes in reporting this story do not silence the voices of victims that need to be heard. this all surrounds a 2014 national which a university of virginia student only called jackie said she was sexually assaulted by several members of a fraternity. jackie s account and rolling stone s reporting quickly began to unravel after another media outlets began asking the key questions. our sara began ganam has more. ....
She stand by her story saying quote i never asked for this attention. what bothers me is so many peopling a like it didn t happen. it s my life. i have to live with the fact that it happened every day for the last two years. let s bring in sar have a ganam, she has been following this. she joins us from uva. what is the latest, what is the fraternity saying? reporter: good afternoon, poppy, i did get off the phone with a spokesperson for the fraternity the local chapter a little while ago. she told me a couple of things, one is several weeks before that article came out, the university and the fraternity made contact with local police, began working with them on that specific allegation and there is more, i want to read to you a little more of the statement they put out today. they said while individual undergraduate members were contacted by the rolling stone writers, a comment on the quote gang rape, they provided no information because they had none to provide. the allegations we ....