Stay updated with breaking news from Jackies friends. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Young woman over several hours. an alleged gang rape during a fraternity party. along with the outrage, there was suspicion. details began to emerge about the night the woman, named jackie, says she was raped. i think that that was pretty clear in the rolling stone piece. it was almost too perfect of a story. reporter: jackie s friends, alex stock and ryan duffin, say they were with her the night of the alleged attack in september, 2012. what they remember is very different from what jackie told rolling stone. the article says that she was beaten, hits in the face. that she was bare foot. that she was bloodied, and that her face was obviously beaten. is that true? no. i didn t notice any sort of physical injuries. i didn t notice a lack of shoes. i didn t really notice anything. reporter: there were other sdrech cease. about where she met her rapist, where they went on their date, and in the most strange twist, jackie had asked her friends to text with her date, and the pic ....
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. ....
Purportedly sent later appeared to be fake. there s a good chance whoever was texting was jackie. there s a definite possibility. reporter: as the story began to fall apart, rolling stone admitted they never contacted the men jackie had accused. they also admitted that alex and ryan were never interviewed by the writer of the story even though they were quoted in the article. rolling stone said it had taken jackie s word and failed to fact check much of her story. that s left towering questions about what s real and what s not. last month, charlottesville police said their investigation found no evidence that jackie was raped in the way that the story portrays. they were clear not to accuse jackie of lying, leaving open the possibility that something bad might have happened to her. perhaps somewhere else. her lips were quivering reporter: her friends tell us they believe it s possible they ll never know exactly what happened to jackie. i still think it s difficult to be ....
Media environment we re in which is so more immediate and people wanting information quicker? there s something to be said about sensationalism. about looking for the most extreme version of a story you can tell. unfortunately, date rape and acquaintance rape is actually common on campuses like uva. there are a lot of stories you could tell about that. but instead, this writer wanted to find frankly a more horrific, more appalling, more shocking example. she ended up going with the story about jackie that did not seem to hold up. there s also something to be said for the idea that the magazine was looking for something that they wanted to be true. that it wanted jackie s story to be true. it wanted to believe jackie. and by the way, that s an understandable impulse. when we hear about victims stories, we want to believe them and want to sympathize with them. the hard, really hard part for journalist is having to be incredibly skeptical and even cynical when dealing with ....
Bolts, if the reporter had just made more phone calls, she would have submarine red flags. she would have seen some discrepancies in the account of this alleged victim. the woman s name is jackie. she was a student at uva. she was never identified with more than her first name. and she described this really horrific attack. but her friends did not back up her story. the fraternity in question didn t have a party when she said there was a party there that she was raped at. if there had been more phone calls, more reporting done, some of those obvious discrepancies would have come to the surface. and both the writer and her editors could have avoided this. the question we have is why, rolling stone can pump out some outstanding journalism from time to time. the issue of rape on college campuses in the u.s. a huge one. why do you think that so many of the basic fact checking and corroboration didn t happen? can you blame in any way the ....