|
"A Rape on Campus" is an article by Sabrina Erdely published in the November 19, 2014 issue of ''Rolling Stone'', which has since been retracted by the publisher. The article claimed that several members of a fraternity at the University of Virginia viciously raped a woman, identified only as Jackie, as part of an initiation rite during a chapter house party. After other journalists investigated the article's claims and found significant discrepancies, ''Rolling Stone'' issued multiple apologies for the story. The story was included in a ''Columbia Journalism Review'' feature, "The Worst Journalism of 2014", where it was described as winning "this year's media-fail sweepstakes". The Poynter Institute named it as the "Error of the Year" in journalism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The year in media errors and corrections 2014 )〕 ''Rolling Stone'' publisher Jann S. Wenner asked the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to audit the editorial processes leading up to the publication of the story. Dean Steve Coll agreed to review the processes with Sheila Coronel, dean of academic affairs. Reporters from ''Rolling Stone'' also contacted sources from the initial story as part of an attempt to piece together what went wrong.〔 On January 12, 2015, Charlottesville Police Department officials told the University that "their investigation has not revealed any substantive basis to confirm that the allegations raised in the Rolling Stone article occurred at Phi Kappa Psi...so there's no reason to keep them suspended".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Phi Kappa Psi Reinstated at the University of Virginia )〕 On January 30, 2015, UVA President Teresa Sullivan acknowledged that the ''Rolling Stone'' story was discredited. Charlottesville Police officially suspended their four-month investigation on March 23, 2015, stating that they had no evidence of a gang rape taking place, and that "there is no substantive basis to support the account alleged in the Rolling Stone article." In light of the findings, Erik Wemple of ''The Washington Post'' pronounced the story "a complete crock". In the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', Bill Grueskin called the story "a mess — thinly sourced, full of erroneous assumptions, and plagued by gaping holes in the reporting".〔http://www.cjr.org/analysis/rolling_stone_journalism.php〕 On April 5, 2015, ''Rolling Stone'' retracted the article and published an independent report on the incident by the Columbia University School of Journalism. The report determined that the magazine failed basic fact checking by relying excessively on the accuser's account, did not verify it through other means, and exhibited confirmation bias.〔〔 It also found a failure in journalistic standards by not reaching out to the people on whom derogatory information was to be published, or when it did so, by not providing enough context for them to offer a meaningful response.〔 The report also states that the article misled readers with quotes where attribution was unclear, and used pseudonyms inappropriately as a way to address these shortcomings, but that no fabrication on the part of the journalists had occurred.〔 The report also points out that after the publication, the staff had initially been unwilling to recognize these deficiencies and had denied that there was a need for policy changes.〔 The Associated Press reported the same day that ''Rolling Stone'' publisher Jann S. Wenner stated that Jackie was "a really expert fabulist storyteller".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Report: Rolling Stone rape article 'journalistic failure' )〕 UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo and members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity have since filed lawsuits against Erdely and ''Rolling Stone''. ==The story== In 2014, Erdely has said, she set out to find an account of a sexual assault at an elite school as the subject of an article. Her resulting story for ''Rolling Stone'', titled "A Rape on Campus", published in the December 4, 2014 issue of that magazine, alleged that seven members of Phi Kappa Psi at the University of Virginia gang-raped a student at that fraternity house on September 28, 2012.〔 The article described the school administration's response to the incident as insufficient, providing detail of the alleged crime so graphic that Erik Wemple later criticized it as hard to believe due to the "diabolical" description〔 Erdely penned:〔This content is a direct quote from the ''Rolling Stone'' article, which can be referenced in its entirety in the External links section below.〕 As reported by Erdely, the story was based on her interviews with the alleged victim, whom she identified only by her first name, Jackie (interviews with several of Jackie's friends, to whom she assigned the pseudonyms "Andy", "Cindy" and "Randall", did not occur until after the article was published in ''Rolling Stone'' and were not conducted by ''Rolling Stone''). The ''Columbia Journalism Review'' report stated that "At Rolling Stone, every story is assigned to a fact-checker."〔 Assistant editor Elisabeth Garber-Paul provided fact-checking. The fact-checker concluded that Ryan – "Randall" under pseudonym – had not been interviewed and that in "one of the story's many unfathomable deceits",〔 as the ''Washington Post'' put it, the article pretended that he had been interviewed. The Columbia report cited the fact-checker: "I pushed. ... They came to the conclusion that they were comfortable" with not making it clear to readers that they had never contacted Ryan.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Rape on Campus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|