Michael and The Media
by Supermodelsonya
She was known as “Jackie”.
Jackie claims that she was gang raped by different men while onlookers watched at a party at a fraternity. She told her story to some friends and was interviewed by a journalist from “Rolling Stone” magazine. Jackie told the female journalist that she was gangraped by seven men at a U-Va. Fraternity party in 2012.
Jackie and the journalist Mrs. Sabrina Erdely weaved a magnificent tale of silence and indifference with a school staff that was conflicted with dealing with a serious crime and the schools reputation.
The backlash against the university was swift. Mrs. Erderly found Jackie to be “credible” She felt that she described an experience that was incredibly traumatic to her.”
The New Republic wrote an article titled “Rolling Stone Never Gave the Villains of its Gang Rape Story a Chance to Defend Themselves”.
She was found “credible” without explanation about the criteria that makes some credible and some not.
However, there were issues. The fact that Jackie knew two of the rapists and could name them was an interesting fact, but one she didn’t follow up on. Nor did she even talk to the friends who she told in the aftermath.
