Rolling Stone Asks Columbia to Investigate its Botched UVA Rape Story

Rolling-Stone-LOGO-2Rolling Stone has asked Columbia University to figure out just how bad it f*cked up its UVA rape story.

As you probably recall, the magazine published a giant piece about a rape on UVA’s campus that was so badly reported we suggested a round of firings was in order.

Here is the full statement from publisher Jann Wenner:

In RS 1223, Sabrina Rubin Erdely wrote about a brutal gang rape of a young woman named Jackie at a party in a University of Virginia frat house [“A Rape on Campus”].

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