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Rolling Stone Magazine Found Guilty of Defamation Over "Rape" Case at UVA

posted by martyb on Sunday November 06 2016, @04:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-believe-everything-you-read dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37879151

Rolling Stone magazine and a journalist have been found guilty of defamation over a false article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia.

The $7.5m (£6m) lawsuit was brought by Nicole Eramo, an associate dean from the university, who said the article had cast her as the "chief villain".

The 2014 article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, included the rape claim of an unidentified female student.

The magazine retracted the article in April 2015, citing inconsistencies.

[...] An investigation by the Charlottesville Police Department had found no evidence that "Jackie" had been gang raped.

[...] The amount [Nicole Eramo] is due in damages will be determined at a later date.

The 10-member federal jury in Charlottesville found that Erdely, the journalist, was responsible for libel with actual malice.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by beernutz on Sunday November 06 2016, @05:49AM

    by beernutz (4365) on Sunday November 06 2016, @05:49AM (#423031)

    Reading that title makes me want to tear my hair out.

    The first sentence would have been a much better source for the title.

    The way you wrote it, It sounds like Rolling Stone Raped someone, or maybe they "Raped" someone (with scare quotes).

    I don't mean to be nasty here, I just get SO tired of titles that are "massaged" to be more click-baity.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by RedGreen on Sunday November 06 2016, @06:19AM

    by RedGreen (888) on Sunday November 06 2016, @06:19AM (#423037)

    "Reading that title makes me want to tear my hair out.
    The first sentence would have been a much better source for the title.
    The way you wrote it, It sounds like Rolling Stone Raped someone, or maybe they "Raped" someone (with scare quotes)."

    When I first saw it I was think which one of them geriatric old boys raped someone and why have I not heard of this before.

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    • (Score: 1) by beernutz on Sunday November 06 2016, @07:55AM

      by beernutz (4365) on Sunday November 06 2016, @07:55AM (#423059)

      Exactly my point. Click bait.

  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:42PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:42PM (#423116) Homepage

    Unless it's been changed since, it looks okay to me. Were the words "of defamation" originally missing?

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    • (Score: 1) by beernutz on Monday November 07 2016, @03:58PM

      by beernutz (4365) on Monday November 07 2016, @03:58PM (#423554)

      It has now been changed it appears.

      Thank you editors! 8)