Tuesday, January 13, 2015

UVa fraternity, falsely accused in Rolling Stone travesty, is reinstated.

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2015/01/university-reinstated-phi-kappa-psi-after-police-investigation-shows-little-evidence

Meanwhile, Rolling Stone's editor has published an apology.  No apology will suffice.  He should resign.  The decision to take the alleged victim's word for everything and to not even query the accused is one of the worst journalistic outrages I have ever encountered.  It will be an ethics problem discussed in college classrooms for decades to come.  And rightly so.  How is it that a major national magazine's editors could come to the conclusion that devastating accusations --- that ruin lives and vilify esteemed institutions --- ought to be published without so much as providing the real victims the opportunity to at least respond to the accusations?  And how could a so-called reputable journalist not see through the lies?  The author, too, ought to be drummed out of the profession, if she doesn't have the decency to pick a new career on her own.

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