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Found failures in the reporting. >> the failure was avoidable. >> reporter: editors mistakenly invested in the single source, jackie the supposed victim. they did not interview jackie's friends who would have contradicted her account. the magazine did not give the accused fraternity enough information to really respond to the allegations. the frat did not even hold a party on the night jackie claimed. that fraternity announcing today it will pursue a lawsuit against "rolling stone" over its reporting. and uva's president says irresponsible journalism unjustly damaged the reputations of many in...

Whose idea it was to kind of just scope out this guy and see if he was okay. >> jackie gave ryan and alexei phone number supposedly of that third year and they began texting the number. jackie said his name was haven monahan. that name would come up again later. >> we texted him pretending to be some other girl who was interested in him in his chemistry class. not saying it was the best plan, but it's what happened. >> these are the text messages purportedly from haven. he says i really like her, describing jack ebb as super smart, hot, into the same music as him. >> did you suspect at that ti...

Out and root it out. >> according to the magazine jackie claimed she was raped by seven men during a party at the fraternity house. however the fraternity says there was no party the night of the alleged attack. and the chapter's lawyer says he has the records to prove it. in the meantime jackie's friends and supporters are still left confused. they still believe she experienced a trauma but the new information left them questioning what really might have happened to jackie. the washington post talked to jackie who stands by her story. he told the post, i never asked for this. what bothers me ...

Be done by rolling stoeb and others if they were to call it a retraction they would be saying the story is false. and they don't have the evidence for that. i think what sarah was saying is crucially important here. is that jackie stands by her story and many of her friends feel clearly there was some traumatic that occurred. but because parts of the story are in dispute they had to at least come out and apologize. >> and the alleged attackers were not named but instead there were nicknames in the story. and the woman described as jackie also describes who, you know, her initial alleged attack...

In the tiniest bit in that article. and the fact checker was amazing and spent great deem of time with me on the phone. i don't know where this went wrong. i do know it puts journalist on edge and really tightening up their game. and that i think when you are dealing with victims of trauma too it is very easy to get lost in a story where the person may not have the best recollection. there are still discrepancies in my head because i don't have the best memory of that night as is chronicles in my book. and i only thought one man raped me. and it turns out i didn't remember it turns out there w...