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[quote=Anonymous]I think the story deserves questioning, before these boys are crucified erroneously, like the Duke boys.

1) If she was raped atop shards of broken glass, wouldn't she be torn up, if not need stitching up? What about the rapists? They would surely have gotten cut as well.

2) The reporter who wrote the story gave this as a reason for why she was not able to contact any of the accused to get their side of the story (from the WaPo):

[i]Erdely had been unable to locate the supposed attackers in her story in order to get their side of the tale. “They were kind of hard to get in touch with because [the fraternity’s] contact page was pretty outdated,” the Rolling Stone reporter told Slate. “I wound up getting in touch with their local president, who sent me an e-mail, and then I talked with their sort of, their national guy, who’s kind of their national crisis manager. They were both helpful in their own way, I guess.” [/i]

That's not really good investigative reporting, especially in the days of the internet.

3) The reporter seems very focused on 'the culture of rape at UVA' rather than the actual story itself. This from the WaPo:

[i]When The Post followed up with Erdely directly on several occasions, they received an email from her in which she admonished the paper for focusing on the particulars of her story. Instead, she suggested, the overarching “culture” of this university which supposedly permitted such behavior – the existence of which is far more difficult to disprove than a criminal act – should be the media’s focus moving forward.

“I could address many of [the questions] individually .. . but by dwelling on this, you’re getting sidetracked,” she wrote in an e-mail response to The Post’s inquiry. “As I’ve already told you, the gang-rape scene that leads the story is the alarming account that Jackie — a person whom I found to be credible — told to me, told her friends, and importantly, what she told the UVA administration, which chose not to act on her allegations in any way — i.e., the overarching point of the article. THAT is the story: the culture that greeted her and so many other UVA women I interviewed, who came forward with allegations, only to be met with indifference.”[/i]

I'm not sure what's going on here, but the moment some starts in on "the culture of....", it's usually means that the truth doesn't really matter if one is trying to draw attention to a cause.  Unfortunately, for the boys involved, the truth DOES matter, just like it did with the Duke boys - who were tried and convicted in the media....erroneously.

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