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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's because it's made up, composite profile "journalism" ala Janet Cook, and the "gang" doesn't really exist as real, live *individuals*  It's a story about a real problem, conceptually speaking, but not a story about a real EVENT at a given date and time.   Mark my words.  Brush up on Janet Cook, who also wrote about something that was a sad, real problem in America.

The Rolling Stone reporter "just couldn't find" and contact these people, at all, despite Rolling Stone's considerable resources to use on reaching out and despite the fact that your average 10 year old can find anyone she wants through social media.

Note that I'm not a rape apologist; in fact, I'm a sexual assault survivor.  However I'm also a long-time journalist and editor and there's something fishy about this piece of "journalism."[/quote]

The RS story never rang true to me.  Not because I don't believe that there are numerous rapes on college campuses, but because the notion of a bunch of fraternity brothers at a school like UVA gang-raping a freshmen in the pitch dark just seems so absurd.  I have to believe that, if that ever happened, one of the assailants either would have already confessed out of guilt or, conversely, cut a deal to mitigate his own potential criminal liability.

And, if something like this did happen to a freshman, the notion that her then-circle of friends would tell her to clam up and take one (or seven) for the team seems equally nuts.  Someone would have encouraged her to report it immediately and pursue it with UVA and criminal authorities from the beginning.   [/quote]

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