That newspaper was instrumental in getting the Rolling Stone article retracted. Not satisfied with the apology and retraction that they never should have gotten, Dean Eramo and Phi Kappa Psi and three of the rapists brought lawsuits for millions of dollars; it would have been much more difficult for them to do that if Rolling Stone hadn't gotten attacked by other media about the article and capitulated to the pressure.
Somebody has already seen the mistakes in the January 8, 2016 article before today, I'm sure.
Has the Washington Post apologized? Has it taken any responsibility for the inaccuracies, or for what those inaccuracies imply about the rest of its reporting about the UVA/Rolling Stone story? Has it done anything to address the damage that the discrediting of the story has done to Rolling Stone and to everyone who contributed to that story?
I doubt it; look at all of the articles and broadcasts that are happening by other, less prominent news sources. That means that the Washington Post is silently hoping that nobody will notice its shoddy reporting, started by an "education reporter" who is a graduate of a private high school in Virginia and Virginia Tech, that is ruining lives.
Jackie's being identified by her last name and called a liar, in articles by those lesser sources that are on the first page of Google search results for "uva rolling stone article."
The lawsuits haven't stopped either, have they? The lawyers for Dean Eramo asked for the texts and got them, and the evidence from them that Jackie got treated by her friends and UVA exactly the way that the Rolling Stone article said is systemic is being denied.
I just looked at the first page of the Washington Post's website. There's nothing there about the University of Virginia or Rolling Stone.
There was this, though, in coded support of a White House that abuses its power:
Then, I did a Google search of "washington post uva rolling stone," to try to find out if the Washington Post has published articles about Rolling Stone or UVA in February, 2016. It doesn't seem to have published anything since January 12, 2016. Not only that, but 3 days after the erroneous January 8, 2016 article was published, the Washington Post published another article by another author, called "Jackie's rape story was false. So why hasn't the media named her by now?" Is there a reason that story was published in that newspaper's "Style" section? Is it the same reason that most of the Post's reporting about the story is by an "education reporter," not a crime reporter?
That's a picture that I took today of the first part of that article.
Those are pictures from today of the entire first page of Google search results for a search from today of the term "washington post uva rolling stone," except for the "Related searches" section at the bottom of the page, which starts with the search term "jackie rolling stone real name."
Sabrina Erdely got bullied by other journalists into apologizing for her article, which is about the culture of silence, repression, denial and deceit at the University of Virginia, and which is supported by many facts and documented narratives in addition to Jackie's. What she wrote about is now happening to her; they will crucify her, ruin her career and impoverish her, make her the target of ridicule, online and physical stalking, so that nobody ever tries to report about rape, on or off campus, again.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, February 11, 2016 @ 9:05 p.m.
