Rolling Stone editors reviewing mistakes after apologizing for 'Rape on Campus' article
With Rolling Stone's 9,000-word article about the brutal gang rape of a University of Virginia student under intense scrutiny, Washington Post reporter Taylor Rees Shapiro, who uncovered flaws in the article, and UVA student Sandra Menendez, who knows the alleged victim, speak with Brian Stelter.
Related: CNNMoney story about what comes next for Rolling Stone
Menendez was interviewed by Erdely but not quoted. She said she and several other students "felt really uncomfortable after being interviewed."
Menendez said she concluded that Erdely had an agenda: "I think she was trying to tell a really painful story, which is that sexual assault really does happen at the University of Virginia and also around the United States. I'm not quite sure if the story that was told, you know, really does speak truly to it."
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Brian Stelter is the host of "Reliable Sources" and the senior media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. Before he joined CNN in November 2013, Stelter was a media reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Top of the Morning."
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Brian, just as your words matter, your grammar matters.
In the segment on the rape a few minutes ago you used me and her as sentence subjects.
As a previous commentator noted: jarring.
I am watching reliable sources, which I generally enjoy - but two glaring grammatical mistakes using "me" as the subject when I should have een used in one segment is just too jarring.
This post was entered into the comments of the original RS story. It received NO rational replies.
"Again I will post this as it seems to be continuously removed by mods of the website. Obviously Rolling Stone Magazine does not like someone pointing out the obvious wholes in the story. So I will post it all night so everyone knows why this is clearly going to be thrown out as soon as it hits court.
According to the story - "Jackie" left the Phi Psi house after being raped by seven men and beaten senselessly and put through a glass table. She was bleeding, and obviously needed medical attention. After she regained consciousness (at 3am) she contacted her friends. Who after meeting up with her immediately determined she did not need to go to the hospital because the three friends reputations would be shot. This is obviously a terrible hole in this 'tragic' story. No normal, sane, or average college student would just tell their bloody, beaten, and raped female friend to just head home and sleep it off. There were two male friends, even if reputation became a topic of discussion MOST men would demand she be taken to receive medical attention. Plus NO ONE discusses their reputation on a campus as a freshmen at 3am after drinking, let alone when a friend is standing their bleeding in front of them.
Now, please. Provide a counter to this argument, rather than just removing it RS.