{"id":942,"date":"2014-12-10T22:56:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/?p=942"},"modified":"2014-12-10T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:56:44","slug":"u-va-students-challenge-rolling-stone-account-of-alleged-sexual-assault-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/2014\/12\/10\/u-va-students-challenge-rolling-stone-account-of-alleged-sexual-assault-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Va. students challenge Rolling Stone account of alleged sexual assault &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is useful to us for two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. Substantively it shows the dangers of weak reporting and editing standards. The original reporter, Erdely, said she agreed not to contact the accused. I don&#8217;t care what the accusation is, that&#8217;s journalistic malpractice. Now it appears either she didn&#8217;t contact the friend like she said she did or she was duped by an imposter or the friend is lying. The first should be a career-killer.<\/p>\n<p>2 \u00a0This story deftly reports the facts and allows readers to draw conclusions. The reporter doesn&#8217;t say it, but his story allows the savvy reader to recognize that it&#8217;s possible the accuser fabricated at least part of the original story to make her friend jealous and more interested in her. Might not be the case, but it&#8217;s conceivable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/u-va-students-challenge-rolling-stone-account-of-attack\/2014\/12\/10\/ef345e42-7fcb-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost\">U-Va. students challenge Rolling Stone account of alleged sexual assault &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is useful to us for two reasons: 1. Substantively it shows the dangers of weak reporting and editing standards. The original reporter, Erdely, said she agreed not to contact the accused. I don&#8217;t care what the accusation is, that&#8217;s journalistic malpractice. Now it appears either she didn&#8217;t contact the friend like she said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[794,360,797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accuracy-and-ethics","category-examples","category-news-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}