Talk:Jackie Coakley

the Rolling Stone and "A Rape on Campus", by Sabrina Rubin Erdely

moved from Talk:GamerGate

• http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-note-to-our-readers-20141205
  • https://archive.today/5c89L

• http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119
• https://archive.today/giKlB
  • http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0Yi2WUgRe-gJ:www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I guess i'll just leave this here:

To Our Readers:

Last month, Rolling Stone published a story titled "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, which described a brutal gang rape of a woman named Jackie at a University of Virginia fraternity house; the university's failure to respond to this alleged assault – and the school's troubling history of indifference to many other instances of alleged sexual assaults. The story generated worldwide headlines and much soul-searching at UVA. University president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and also to examine the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.

Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her. In the months Erdely spent reporting the story, Jackie neither said nor did anything that made Erdely, or Rolling Stone's editors and fact-checkers, question Jackie's credibility. Her friends and rape activists on campus strongly supported Jackie's account. She had spoken of the assault in campus forums. We reached out to both the local branch and the national leadership of the fraternity where Jackie said she was attacked. They responded that they couldn't confirm or deny her story but had concerns about the evidence. 

In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced. We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.

Will Dana
Managing Editor

The primary story was taken down, but not before being archived at archive.today as seen above. -hipcrime 16:25, 5 December 2014 (EST)

• What dis have do wit GG tho. oddguy 05:44, 6 December 2014 (EST)

• ethics and shit. not gaming journalism tho, my bad. -hipcrime 10:57, 6 December 2014 (EST)

• i've taken the liberty of moving this thread here. idk what to make of the article. -hipcrime 14:59, 7 December 2014 (EST)

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• From what I've read, they apologize for not doing their due journalistic diligence, but at the same time still say they believe her story. The BBC did a piece on it a couple days ago. So basically they're sorry they fucked up, because it damages the message they were trying to send, but not sorry because reasons. I didn't bother with frats in college, so it's hard for me to care beyond that. Talk | Contribs 16:16, 7 December 2014 (EST)

The "The Hook" article mentioned at ROK was taken down, but it's available via Google Cache. (Archive.today link). -hipcrime 18:09, 7 December 2014 (EST)

link dump

• http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0104/0104arts02.html A piece by Erdely excoriating another journalist
  • https://archive.today/WjqgL

-hipcrime 20:30, 7 December 2014 (EST)

Wikipedia link

In case anyone decides to shit on my parade, I added the Wikipedia entry because there are a few based fuckers still editing, including the person who made the article. I've also archived it because literally, some based fucker did their research on this shit. Hope some aspie doesn't remove it. Peace. KillingTaco 16:47, 8 December 2014 (EST)