{"id":7359,"date":"2014-12-07T00:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T00:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2014-12-07T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T00:43:38","slug":"big-story-takes-bigger-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7359","title":{"rendered":"Big story takes bigger hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rolling Stone isn’t known as a publication that makes stories up.<\/p>\n

Thus, the magazine editors’ announcement that they were retracting a story about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia is a very big deal.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/12\/05\/rolling-stone-retracts-uva-story\/19954293\/<\/p>\n

It’s the retraction that makes the story so interesting, to me at least.<\/p>\n

A woman named “Jackie” reported that she had been raped by several men at a fraternity house party at the UVa campus in Charlottesville. Then her credibility came into question.<\/p>\n

Her story didn’t add up. There was no party the night she said one occurred, the magazine found out.<\/p>\n

Then came the announcement that the magazine was taking back what it reported.<\/p>\n

A retraction is a very big deal in journalism.<\/p>\n

Publications issue “corrections” all the time when they get facts wrong. They issue “clarifications” when the facts aren’t printed as clearly as they should be printed. A retraction? Well, that means the publication no longer stands by the story or the reporter who wrote it … or even the line editors who edited the story, looking for holes in it or places that need to be fleshed out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a university’s reputation has been tarnished. Students stood before the nation and apologized for what they described as a “culture of rape” at UVa.<\/p>\n

Well, it now turns out that one student at the university has exhibited a “culture of lying.”<\/p>\n

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Rolling Stone isn’t known as a publication that makes stories up. Thus, the magazine editors’ announcement that they were retracting a story about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia is a very big deal. http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/12\/05\/rolling-stone-retracts-uva-story\/19954293\/ It’s the retraction that makes the story so interesting, to me at least. A woman named “Jackie” … Continue reading Big story takes bigger hit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1846,2853,4004,5029],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gang-rape","tag-magazine-editors","tag-rolling-stone","tag-university-of-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}