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Rolling Stone apologizes, retracts discredited rape story

By
Beckie Strum
Published April 5, 2015, 8:05 p.m. ET

Embarrassed officials at Rolling Stone magazine on Sunday officially retracted its report of a horrific gang rape by seven frat boys at the University of Virginia.

The magazine pulled the story, published last November, from its Web site and printed an apology under the heading, “What Went Wrong?” after Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism flunked the reporter and editors responsible for the article, citing “three failures of reporting”:

  • Failing to provide members of the fraternity with enough information from the story before it was printed to be able to rebut it.
  • Failing to interview the friends whom the alleged victim — identified only as “Jackie’’ — said she met right after the attack. She described them as nonsupportive.
  • Stopping the search for Jackie’s supposed date, identified only as “Drew,’’ who she said had invited her to a frat-house party where the supposed attack took place. The mag didn’t try to contact the alleged assailants because Jackie said it would make her uncomfortable.

Columbia also criticized Rolling Stone for identifying the major protagonists with pseudonyms and for giving Jackie too much control over the story.

Columbia’s report, commissioned by the magazine after serious issues were raised immediately following the article’s publication, generated two apologies.

“We would like to apologize to our readers and to all of those who were damaged by our story . . . including Phi Kappa Psi fraternity,’’ managing editor Will Dana said.

The reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, said the past several months “have been among the most painful of my life,” adding that reading the report “was a brutal and humbling experience.”

UVa President Teresa Sullivan blasted the magazine, saying “Rolling Stone’s story, ‘A Rape on Campus,’ did nothing to combat sexual violence and it damaged serious efforts to address the issue.”

She added the article “falsely accused some University of Virginia students of heinous criminal acts and falsely depicted others as indifferent to the suffering of their classmates” and portrayed staff members as “manipulative and callous toward victims of sexual assault.’’

No one at the magazine will be fired, according to CNN.

Despite the findings, fact-checking chief Coco McPherson, didn’t think the magazine had to make any changes. The Columbia report quotes her as saying, “I 100 percent do not think that the policies we have in place failed. I think decisions were made around those because of the subject matter.”

The magazine commissioned the probe after other media — and police — began to poke holes in its story. For one thing, cops found there was no party at the frat house the night of the supposed attack.