A vile act of violation reduced to a commodity, a pretext for meme perpetuation. This is how little actual lives and souls are worth to collectivists.As Chris Bray of the Daily Caller writes, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the story’s author, was “rape shopping,” perhaps the ultimate example of a “journalist” starting with a sensational narrative she wanted to trumpet in a big glossy national publication, and then finding the facts to support it, and failing that, pushing the truth through the Play-Dough Fun Factory to produce the desired outcome:[Erdely was] going from campus to campus auditioning rape victims, contacting advocacy groups and asking for introductions. But the rapes she found at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn didn’t have the right narrative feel. They were just rapes, and she needed a cover-worthy rape. So she kept shopping until she found someone who would tell her a version of the story she had already decided to tell. She needed a big rape — something splashy, something with wild details and a frat house. She needed a rape that would go viral. You can’t do that with just some regular boring rape.Bray concludes:Meanwhile, real problems go unreported, because boooooring. Look again at how casual the discard pile is: “She talked to people at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. None of those schools felt quite right.”Get better rapes, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn. Let’s face it: For magazine journalism, yours just aren’t colorful enough.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Cramming the narrative down post-America's throat, regardless of the damage to real lives and institutions
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The American people do not have to look far for other reports of campus rape There is one right before their noses that will continue to simmer right on through the bowl games and the National Championship. The police report and other proceedings are in the public record, and it is lurid enough, come on gals, they're jocks, don't you all want to do things to and with their stick? Anyhow, I see you shopping for stories a lot on facebook. What if you hit the mother lode? Also, this story is still developing. Rolling Stone has admitted journalistic sin but the victim's story is still the victim's story.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm going to cover something controversial, I get both sides of the story and try to get sources willing to go on record.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but I'll bet your internal compass is whirling when you finally hit the jackpot. You probably don't hit it right off. I see nothing wrong with searching out your bombshell. Yes, Rolling Stone missed the boat, and has admitted so, now it says this in no way impugns the victim. The victim did not write the damned article. I see where the frats at UVa are taking the offensive. Let's let it all hang out. I know disgusting crap happens on campus especially amongst jocks and fratmen. Perhaps torrents of rape reports will trickle in, ala the Cosby phenomenon.
ReplyDelete"University of Virginia student who lived with Jackie, the subject of a disputed Rolling Stone article about the school's response to sexual assault, published a defense of the alleged rape victim Sunday night in the campus newspaper. Emily Clark, who was Jackie's suitemate when she was allegedly gang-raped at UVA's chapter of Phi Kappa Psi in 2012, wrote in the Cavalier Daily that she "wholeheartedly" believes Jackie experienced a traumatizing sexual assault. "Sometime that year I remember her letting it slip to me that she had had a terrible experience at a party," Clark wrote. "I remember her telling me that multiple men had assaulted her at this party. She didn’t say anything more. It seemed that was all she’d allow herself to say."
To be continued...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-roommate-says-jackie-uva-rape-story-not-hoax
The author is a radical feminist whose purpose was to perpetuate a notion, namely, that white male fraternity guys are rape-pronebrutes.
ReplyDeleteIs this Clark willing to testify under oath?
ReplyDeleteHow would I know? I am just an observer, maybe not as obsessed with this issue as you, but I, too, only know what I read. Well, when I read your stuff I know that the author is an arch political conservative whose purpose is to morally and forthrightly tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, as he of course sees it. Journalistic ethics are eroding. Journalism is eroding. Everybody these days is a journalist and has a chance to go viral, especially with a good money shot from their cell phone.
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