Rolling Stone, rape journalism and corrections.

His nickname is E.J. He's in a wheelchair after catching a stray bullet. I tried to get a photog out to get a shot, but he was on another assignment. He really didn't wanna talk about it anyway. Big O's fan, though. I swear!

 

The most amazing aspect of this story to me is that it ran in one of the few places left that actually checks facts.

 

I don't think this is true at all at a magazine level. I don't know what the level of fact-checking is like at RS, but Esquire, GQ, SI, ESPN The Mag, The Atlantic, The NYT Mag, The New Yorker, People, Smithsonian, Outside, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Wired (among others) all do a lot of good journalism, and all of them have fact-checking departments.

 

Just replace it with their naming Springsteen's last dismal effort the second-best album of 2014.

 

Is there a Keith Richards solo record that can step up and act as a human shield?

 

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23. PROFIT

 

"World, meet Mick Jagger: solo artist."

 

Nope, you're spot on. I immediately thought the same thing.

And I find it beyond comprehension that RS' lawyers would let that caveat slide during the story's vetting process.

 

So are you lumping Erdely and RS together? Is that fair?
A lot of your points seem to apply mostly to Erdley, who I think not-so-blindly duped RS in publishing this crap.
RS is a fault, certainly, but I don't hold it to the same standard as The New Yorker or even Texas Monthly.
I think the RS editors were in over their heads. I'd always thought RS was devoted to music and hipster crap ... a better version of Maxim. Disclaimer: I don't read RS, so I may be way off base.

 

Rolling Stone — Ragu's clever barb about Taibbi aside — has done a LOT of great journalism. The Gen. McCrystal stuff, for example. They are ABSOLUTELY TO BLAME as much If not more so than Erdley.

 

Wemple: Everyone involved in this should lose their jobs.

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