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According to the 2021 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, reports of on-campus rape at the University of Nebraska Lincoln doubled from 2019 to 2020.
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.
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
to watch. geopolitics and personal relationships all get wound together. orrin lieberman live out of jerusalem. thank you very much. we are getting some answers about what happened at "rolling stone" with its controversy rape on campus story. what a review found and what the author is saying still to come. skincare to the next level with roc® multi correxion® 5 in 1. proven to hydrate dryness, illuminate dullness, lift sagging, diminish the look of dark spots, and smooth the appearance of wrinkles. high performance skincare™ only from roc®. and smooth the appearance of wrinkles. when it comes to vaping, vuse has changed the game. vuse digital vapor cigarettes designed and assembled in the usa. our smart micro-processor controls heat and power up to 2,000 times a second for superior vapor. and our v-liquid is blended by our experts at r.j. reynolds for great taste satisfaction. vuse. for a perfect puff.
>> reporter: the story shocked the university at uva -- campus at uva and the nation. several men accused of attacking a woman over several hours. an alleged rape at a fraternity party. along with outrage, there was suspicion. details began to emerge about the night the woman named jackie says she was raped. >> i think that that was clear in the "rolling stone" piece that 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, hit in the face, that she was barefoot, that she was bloodied. and that her face was obviously beaten. is that true? >> no. i didn't notice any physical injuries. i didn't notice a lack of shoes. i didn't really notice anything. >> reporter: there were other discrepancies about where she met her rapist, where they went on their date, and in the most
victims. and yet still being human. somehow still be human and warm and empathetic. that is the very fine line that journalist face when they're covering crime and trauma. and in this case, "rolling stone" did not get it right. >> the magazine is officially retracting the story. they say they're going to make the entire report from the columbia school of journalism available in its next issue which comes out april 8th. you talked about this on your show sunday, though. as it comes to trusting victims which is a problem in the issue of on-campus rape, how much damage has this entire fiasco created? >> you know, we should say it is pretty impressive. "rolling stone" is publishing this review. this is an embarrassing report. they'll put it in the magazine. on the other hand, they are not taking disciplinary action against any staffers. against any editors, against any fact-checkers. that's a decision that is coming under scrutiny tonight and into the coming days, i think. in fact, the "rolling stone" is not coming out and saying that they're dismissing or suspending or taking any disciplinary action against anyone. that's the journalism story.