Did Rolling Stone Hurt the Quest for Justice? [NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/7/1512:00 PM

This week the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism issued its damning report about the journalistic lapses by Rolling Stone magazine when it published a salacious, and now-discredited, story about a supposed gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house.

The report blasted the magazine for failing to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice” to verify the veracity of the story. This only amplified the finger pointing of those who believe the issue of college rape is an overhyped fallacy or an ideological instrument, and the hand-wringing among activists who fear real damage to a real issue.

[For more of this story, written by Charles M. Blow, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04...ref=opinion&_r=0]

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