The timeline you present here is all wrong. The article itself says that her college acceptance was rescinded, meaning it came before this article. The article

The timeline you present here is all wrong. The article itself says that her college acceptance was rescinded, meaning it came before this article. The article was published in December 2020 and these events happened in June 2020: > The consequences were swift. Over the next two days, Ms. Groves was removed from the university’s cheer team. She then withdrew from the school under pressure from admissions officials, who told her they had received hundreds of emails and phone calls from outraged alumni, students and the public. The mere act of reporting - documenting an event that happened for its readers - does not make the author “scum of the earth”. You find it offensive and hideous that the journalist did things that they did not in fact do, while yourself presenting a false accounting of the facts.