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Title: “'Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax?' Asks Idiot”, published December 1.

First link below: “Rolling Stone Partially Retracts UVA Story Over 'Discrepancies'”, published December 5.

That’s quite a feat.

For whatever it’s worth, the “first link below” story contains this quote from the author of the first story

“ This is really, really bad. It means, of course, that when I dismissed Richard Bradley and Robby Soave's doubts about the story and called them "idiots" for picking apart Jackie's account, I was dead fucking wrong, and for that I sincerely apologize.”

Indeed. Without as much as a hint of questioning why they felt completely normal to write the previous article with such stupid headline and content. If it were a company, we’d say it was a non-apology apology and that it shows they don’t want to admit the problem.

I think it's telling that the author's remorse was for being mean to a fellow opinion writer, as opposed to fomenting a culture of guilty until proven innocent

Each of those links is a published correction and retraction of previous statements as new information came to light so they seem like principled journalists, with their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks.

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