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I agree the hardest people to prosecute here are the editors, but they should have insisted that the story was fact checked to a much great extent. This is not
by danieltillett 10y ago
I agree the hardest people to prosecute here are the editors, but they should have insisted that the story was fact checked to a much great extent. This is not a story where you can be flippant about minor details like facts.
- dredmorbius 10y agoAgain: neglegence, yes. Malicious intent strikes me as much harder to demonstrate. I'm going to point to the elephant in the room as well: there's a lot of politicking and posing on both sides of the issue of women, women's rights, rape and abuse culture, and the rest. There's a lot of wrong on both sides, including brigading, thin (or absent) logic, false claims, and the rest. Rape is bad, abuse is bad. Human relations are complex, though, and there's a tremendous amount at stake. Thinking you're doing good and discovering you're not happens, again, on both sides.
- danieltillett 10y agoI agree rape is an incredibly emotional topic and sometimes bad things happen as a consequence of good intentions, but in this particular case Rolling Stone were found guilty of malicious intent in their reporting. This is not a simple case of "shit happens". We need to ensure that cases like this don't occur in the future by holding everyone involved to account to the fullest extent the law allows. The victims of rape deserve nothing less.