The media should publish the name of the UVA rape hoax girl, Jackie Coakley. "[118] It points out that Rolling Stone staff were initially unwilling to recognize these deficiencies and denied a need for policy changes. Journalist publishes alleged name and photo of UVA rape victim Attorneys for the dean, Nicole Eramo, allege that NOW, the largest feminist group in the U.S., and the lawyers for the false rape accuser, Jackie Coakley ("Jackie"), engaged in a "publicity stunt" by jointly crafting a Jan. 6, 2016 open letter criticizing Eramo for "re-victimiz[ing]" the fabulist. [125] He added, "False accusations have been extremely damaging to our entire organization, but we can only begin to imagine the setback this must have dealt to survivors of sexual assault. And for the next three hours she's brutally raped and beaten, with Drew and another upperclassman supposedly shouting out instructions to the pledges, referring to Jackie as 'it'." They went on to call for Rolling Stone to "fully and unconditionally retract its story and immediately remove the story from its website". [117] The report also states that the article misled readers with quotes where attribution was unclear and used pseudonyms inappropriately as a way to address these shortcomings. Everything We Know About the UVA Rape Case [Updated] - Intelligencer "[56] But on December 5, 2014, Rolling Stone published an online apology, stating that there appeared to be "discrepancies" in the accounts of Erdely's sources and that their trust in the accuser was misplaced. It was later revealed Erdely had not interviewed any of the men accused of the rape. [124], After the Charlottesville Police concluded that there was no evidence of a crime having occurred at Phi Kappa Psi during their press conference on March 23, 2015, Stephen Scipione, the president of Phi Kappa Psi's UVA chapter, announced that his fraternity is "exploring its legal options to address the extensive damage caused by Rolling Stone". The bride is the daughter of the late Norman and Elsie Miles Armstrong of Pickens and stepmother, the late Nell Bennett Armstrong. [15] For anonymity, Erdely only used Jackie's first name and gave pseudonyms to other students discussed in the story. So it took me a day or two to admit that I found many of Erdely's details unrecognizable. [24] [81], Journalist Caitlin Flanagan, who wrote an expos in The Atlantic titled "The Dark Power of Fraternities: A yearlong investigation of Greek houses", told On the Media that she was concerned that Erdely's article could inhibit reforms of the Greek system. [142] Froma Harrop issued a call for media outlets to begin to publicly name rape accusers, explaining that "reporters and editors should expand their sensitivities to include the reputations of those accused, not always justly". I have argued in these pages that the FBI needs to go hard against the Clinton Foundation for just that reason, lest the next powerful person or couple use a phony-baloney charitable entity to disguise an influence-peddling scam. "[126][127], Phi Kappa Psi's national headquarters released the following statement: "That Rolling Stone sought to turn fiction into fact is shamefulThe discredited article has done significant damage to the ability of the chapter's members to succeed in their educational pursuits and besmirched the character of undergraduate students at the University of Virginia who did not deserve the spotlight of the media." When you walk in, the line to order is directly in front of you, with the cash registers just ahead and off to the right. "[40] In the aftermath, Jackie was characterized as "a really expert fabulist storyteller" by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner in an April 5, 2015 interview. Jackie Coakley bears no responsibility whatsoever for this hoax and the blame lies entirely with Rolling Stone Managazine even though she lied about nearly every single detail of her account and this may not even be the first time she's done it! ", "Rolling Stone publisher: U.Va. "[29], Richard Bradley, editor-in-chief of Worth magazine, was among the first mainstream journalists to question the Rolling Stone article, in a blog entry written on November 24, 2014. [147][148][149] Harvey A. Silverglate in The Boston Globe referenced the Rolling Stone article in opining that the college sexual assault "scare" follows a long tradition of runaway, exaggerated social epidemics that "have ruined innocent lives and corrupted justice. [30][31] After an interview Erdely gave to Slate, in which she was questioned about the way she investigated the piece, some commentators escalated their questioning of the veracity of the article. [170] The lawsuit was settled on December 21, 2017. We all remember the tumult at the University of Virginia five years back. Later media analysis of photos Jackie showed her friends of her date demonstrated that they were pictures taken from the public social media profile of a former high-school classmate of Jackie, who was not a student of the University of Virginia, did not live in the Charlottesville area, and was out of state at an athletic competition the day of the alleged attack. In September 2013, Eramo connected Jackie with Emily Renda, a UVA staff member, recent graduate and leader in the college's sexual assault support group One Less. [32][33] Erdely defended her decision not to interview the accused by saying that the contact page on the fraternity's website "was pretty outdated". Oh, the earth spun a little slower, or faster metaphors fail me when it comes to stuff like this. Forward it to your friends! National Organization For Women Defends Rolling Stone Gang Rape "[74][75] Lauren Kling of the Poynter Institute criticized Rolling Stone for "blaming [the] source" instead of taking ownership of their own errors. On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone published the now retracted article by Sabrina Erdely titled "A Rape on Campus" about an alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia (UVA) student, Jackie Coakley. [164] The lawsuit was settled on April 11, 2017. [99], In Erdely's story, Jackie is lured into an alleged seven-man rape by U. Va. upperclassman "Drew". [155], In the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Grueskin called the story "a messthinly sourced, full of erroneous assumptions, and plagued by gaping holes in the reporting". That's terrible for journalism", "Should there have been firings at Rolling Stone? We must, apparently, not give out the names of accusers even after they have been shown to be liars. Real Name Of UVA Rape Accuser: Jackie Coakley | Luke Ford The original story was told by a young woman named Jackie Coakley identified only as "Jackie" in the article who said she was taken on a date by a handsome member of the Phi Kappa Psi. Borscht Belt Museum in the works in Ellenville | WAMC [17] "[82], Writing for Time, columnist Cathy Young said that the unraveling of Erdely's article "exposed the troubling zealotry of advocates for whom believing rape claims is somewhat akin to a matter of religious faith". The story was heart-breaking, but ultimately appears to be proved untrue. This isn't the first time Rolling Stone has published provably false stories. Virginia sorority members called the restrictions "unnecessary and patronizing". [140], Due to increased social skepticism about the prevalence of sexual assault created by the unraveling of Erdely's Rolling Stone report, the Military Justice Improvement Act would be "much harder" to enact, according to Margaret Carlson,[141] and ultimately did not pass in that congressional session. Given the anti-violence, anti-rape climate we are in, it is. Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Andrews - The Intermountain You all know where she is. An attorney for Phi Psi said Monday they're seeking a " broader area of inquiry " than what was requested by Eramo, and a judge has again ruled that Jackie must comply with a subpoena to turn over documents relating to the caseJackie's claims about a gang rape fell apart once it was discovered that the man she allegedly had a date with on that President: School to Be National Leader on Campus Safety", "UVA Applications Drop in Wake of Discredited Gang-Rape Story Bloomberg Business", "Party Ban Is Patronizing, U.Va. The Post did report, however, that Jackie appeared distraught after the rape allegedly took place. "[63], Erdely publicly apologized for the article on April 5, 2015,[64] though her apology did not include any mention of the fraternity, or the members of the fraternity who were accused. When asked if Dana's departure was influenced by the debacle surrounding Erdely's article, the magazine's publisher responded that "many factors go into a decision like this". [37], The Washington Post reporters later interviewed the accuser at the center of Erdely's story and two of the friends that Rolling Stone said she had met on the night of the incident. All of this, we might point out, happened only because a petulant, amoral female student wanted attention, and because the climate against sexual assault has risen to where the assumption is of guilt rather than innocence. [68], On October 24, 2016, in a video deposition, Jackie said, "I stand by the account I gave Rolling Stone. [65] The Columbia Journalism Review called the apology "a grudging act of contrition". Where, we ask, are the Federal cops? The same account was accessed on March 18, 2016, from inside ALTG, Stein, Mitchell, Muse & Cipollone LLP, Jackie's legal firm. to see all of them, at. Teresa Sullivan, the president of UVa, promptly shut down all the fraternities and, bizarrely, the sororities as well (don't ask), in a "ready, fire, aim" response, without allowing even the Phi Psis the due process to point out all the inaccuracies that made the article suspect.Ultimately, Rolling Stone got sued, paid out a big settlement to get out from under their own stupidity, and took a big black eye as far as journalistic competence. ", to become a weapon of revenge. On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone published the now retracted article by Sabrina Erdely titled "A Rape on Campus" about an alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia (UVA) student, Jackie Coakley. Players in baseball's segregation-era Negro Leagues unite to keep the Haven claims he doesn't know. [49][50] After initially refusing to answer whether Jackie had access to or created the Haven Monahan email account, on May 31, 2016, Jackie's law firm filed court papers acknowledging they had recently accessed "Haven Monahan's" e-mail account for the purpose "of confirming that documents Eramo requested for the lawsuit were no longer in Jackie's possession. The Columbia Journalism Review called the story "this year's media-fail sweepstakes" and the Poynter Institute named it as the "Error of the Year" in journalism. Erdely said that Jackie regained consciousness alone in the fraternity after 3 a.m. and fled the building blood-spattered and bruised, phoning three friends for help. Writing in Slate, Hannah Rosin described the new The Washington Post investigation as close "to calling the UVA gang rape story a fabrication". [135], On January 30, 2015, Teresa Sullivan, the President of the University of Virginia, acknowledged that the Rolling Stone story was "discredited" in her State of the University Address. Sorority Women Say", "Rolling Stone may have crushed anti-rape bill", "Rolling Stone threw a rape victim to the misogynist horde", "Greek leaders go on the offensive at UVA", "Campus sexual assault under fresh scrutiny after new survey shows lower incidence: News", "Sex crimes on campus: Professors as judges", "The new panic: campus sex assaults Opinion", "Charlottesville police make clear that Rolling Stone story is a complete crock", "Civil, Criminal Lawsuits: Possible Outcomes of, "Former UVA Fraternity Member Hires Lawyer Who Specializes in Sex Assault Cases", "The year in media errors and corrections 2014", "U-Va. Dean Sues Rolling Stone for 'False' Portrayal in Retracted Rape Story", "Attorneys for 'Jackie' in Rolling Stone Lawsuit Protest Under-Oath Deposition, Say It Could 'Re-Traumatize' Her", "Former U-va. Student 'Jackie' to Sit for Deposition in Rolling Stone Lawsuit", "Jury says Rolling Stone article defamed UVa administrator | Local", "Rolling Stone trial: Jury finds magazine liable for defamation for discredited rape story Nov. 4, 2016", "In Rolling Stone Defamation Case, Magazine and Reporter Ordered to Pay $3 Million", "U-Va. Eramo was awarded $3 million by a jury who concluded that Rolling Stone defamed her with actual malice,[11] and Rolling Stone settled the lawsuit with the fraternity for $1.65 million. Milton Berle, Jackie Mason, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld got a start up here, Woody Allen, the list goes on. Jury selection starts June 4. [28] Community members offered suggestions for immediate steps administration could take to implement preventive measures and address safety concerns regarding sexual assault. The trio also sent text messages to a phone number Jackie said was the mobile phone of her date and were surprised that the owner of the phone number responded primarily with flattering messages about Randall, whom Jackie was romantically interested in. She decided to get the attention she wanted, by making up a completely baseless story about having been gang-raped at a fraternity house, Phi Kappa Psi (colloquially referred to as Phi Psi). [143], Several commentators hypothesized that allegations of rape against Bill Cosby, which surfaced at the same time as the publication of "A Rape on Campus", would be less damaging to the comedian as a result of the seeming collapse of the Rolling Stone story. 2) She just made it a million times harder for real rape victims to come forward because people are less likely to believe them. Former student faces six years in prison for falsely reporting rape NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history in the Negro Leagues. [46] Slate reported that the Post account strongly implied Jackie's tale of rape had been fabricated in an attempt to win over "Randall", who had previously rebuffed her romantic advances. [17][20], Within hours of the article's publication, UVA president Teresa Sullivan had called the governor's chief of staff and the Charlottesville police chief to start preparing a response. Now, that's no longer the case. Jill Geisler in the Columbia Journalism Review reacted to Dana's statement by saying, "At a time when humility should guide a leader's comments, that quote carries the aroma of arrogance. Teresa Sullivan, the president of UVa, promptly shut down all the fraternities and, bizarrely, the sororities as well (don't ask), in a "ready, fire, aim" response, without allowing even the Phi Psis the due process to point out all the inaccuracies that made the article suspect. . She is immediately tackled by one of the eight men waiting in the pitch darkness. A hand covers her mouth. Where are the Feds?There is certainly a good argument to make that it is often necessary to prosecute as a deterrent to the next person willing to try the same felonious act. [18], Inquirer media columnist Michael Smerconish recounted that when he interviewed Erdely about the story on Sirius XM radio, she told him: "I talked to all of her friends, all the people that she confided in along the way." "[90] Writing in Politico two days after the "story fell apart", Julia Horowitz, deputy editor of the university's campus newspaper, described the feeling among students: "The campusrelatively oversaturated with emotion after a semester of significant traumafeels as if it is on stand-by, poised in anticipation of where the next torrent of news will take us. [160] However, on April 2, 2016, the judge denied the motions and ordered Jackie to appear for a deposition on April 6, to be held at a secret location. No one says 'UVrApe'; no one I know has ever heard the Rugby Road-themed 'traditional fight song' that poetically ('fuck for 50 cents'/'panties on the fence') separated the article's sections Jackie was lying, and railroaded into the spotlight on a story that now appears to be a PTSD-laced delusional flashback. Jackie Coakley ("Jackie . "[119], Jann Wenner added that "Will Dana, the magazine's managing editor, and the editor of the article, Sean Woods, would keep their jobs." [16] The university would not take further action unless Jackie disclosed the names of the individuals or the fraternity involved. Jackie Coakley: Accuser At Center Of False 'Rolling Stone' Rape Story Said the filing: "Rolling Stone and Erdely's highly defamatory and false statements about Dean Eramo were not the result of an innocent mistake. [53][54][55], Initially, Erdely stood by her story, stating: "I am convinced that it could not have been done any other way, or any better. In today's 24-hour news cycle, we all have a tendency to rush to judgment without having all of the facts in front of us. Rolling Stone received a lot of heat for publicizing the rape story without convincing evidence that Coakley was, in fact, raped. Tim Coakley Jazz Show; Vox Pop; . The student at the heart of Rolling Stone 's discredited gang-rape story has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over her communications. Students at the University of Virginia expressed "bewilderment and anger" following Rolling Stone's apology for its story, with one female student declaring "Rolling Stone threw a bomb at us." However, that statement seemed to contradict an earlier assertion the accuser had made to The Washington Post, in which she stated: "I know it was Phi [Kappa] Psi, because a year afterward, my friend pointed out the building to me. So where is good old Jackie Coakley these days? [152][153] ABC News has reported that the accuser, Jackie, herself might be sued. [80] Rolling Stone ran the story anyway, to their journalistic and financial detriment. The Columbia report cited the fact-checker: "I pushed. [161] On November 4, 2016, after 20 hours of deliberation,[162] a jury consisting of eight women and two men found Rolling Stone, the magazine's publisher and Erdely liable for defaming Eramo. Police said that three months after reporting she was raped by two football players in a bathroom at a party, she admitted to the same motivation that drove Jackie. It was Nov. 19, 2014, when the world first learned about Jackie, a young woman who claimed in the pages of Rolling Stone that she had been gang-raped as part of a fraternity initiation. And I think the level of devastation that this Rolling Stone report that's now looking to go from a misremembered event to perhaps an actual hoax." Eramo is suing Rolling Stone for $25 million, claiming the magazine's 2014 article "A Rape On Campus" defamed her by portraying her as indifferent towards the gang rape of student Jackie Coakley and unwilling to take her claims seriously. The poster featured an image of Lena Dunham, whose own allegations of rape had recently come under scrutiny, and included a sidebar reference to "A Rape on Campus" that read "Our UVA Rape Apology: Ooops, we did it AGAIN!!! "[84], After two Vanderbilt University football players were convicted of rape on January 27, 2015, Richard Bradley, who was the first mainstream journalist to question the Rolling Stone story, wrote a blogpost titled "Why Didn't Sabrina Rubin Erdely Write about Vanderbilt?" Well, she is married and is now "Jackie McGovern", living her life, la-la-la, scot-free. Virginia Attorney-General Mark Herring said he found it "deeply troubling that Rolling Stone magazine is now publicly walking away from its central storyline in its bombshell report on the University of Virginia without correcting what errors its editors believe were made. A Rape Hoax for Book Lovers - Taki's Magazine [16], Jackie's academic performance reportedly declined, and she became socially withdrawn due to emotional distress. Rolling Stone Trial: UVA Jackie Invented Rumor Her Friend Had Syphilis Rolling Stone Sued by Fraternity Named in Fake UVA Rape Story "[130] Phi Kappa Psi members received death threats and the president of the university postponed all events related to its fraternities and sororities until mid-January 2015. In Erdely's story, Jackie tells her three friends the night of the alleged event that she was raped by seven men over a three-hour period while rolling on a mat of broken glass. Jackie Coakley Where Is She Now - Gary Cluster Republican Search Results Jackie Coakley "[69][70] Around the same time, WCAV of Charlottesville, Virginia, published the audio of Jackie's 2014 statements to Erdely. Columbia published Groves' letter, where he contrasts video[133] of his statements to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors in September 2014 with the text of Erdely's published article, which differ significantly,[citation needed] and concludes that Erdely's article contains "bias and malice". Rolling Stone was hardly innocent, but this whole episode cost them whatever reputation remained. "[150], The Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple stated that everyone connected to this story at Rolling Stone should be fired. In addition, several windows were broken with bottles and cinder blocks, and police officials said that the group received "disparaging messages" on social media. Emails filed in federal court on Friday show that the Rolling Stone reporter who wrote a now-debunked article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia told colleagues that "our worst nightmare" became a reality after she realized the main source for the story was lying. At the end of the day, UVA's incredible story fit Erdely's narrative better than Vanderbilt's credible one. president admits rape story was false; keeps restrictions on fraternities", "U.Va. [156], Additionally, the Poynter Institute named the story as the "Error of the Year" in journalism. "[91], Within days following the unraveling of the Rolling Stone story, the North American Interfraternity Conference, the National Panhellenic Council, and the Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee demanded that the University of Virginia "immediately reinstate operations for all fraternity and sorority organizations on campus" and issue an apology to Greek students. Rolling Stone falsely accused some University of Virginia students of heinous, criminal acts, and falsely depicted others as indifferent to the suffering of their classmate. [113] The Columbia Journalism Review called the story "this year's media-fail sweepstakes". There's a Chick-fil-A by our office. "[85][86] Robby Soave in Reason's Hit & Run Blog answered Bradley's query about why Erdely chose UVA over Vanderbilt. The main entrance is in the middle of the building's west side. Such false depictions reinforce the reluctance sexual assault victims already feel about reporting their experience, lest they be doubted or ignored. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo explained, "We would've loved to have had Jackie come in and tell us what happened so we can obtain justice even if the facts were different. [61] In the aftermath of the collapse of the story, Dana noted: "Right now, we're picking up the pieces. [18][40][41] Sandra Menendez, a student who claimed to have been interviewed by Erdely but who was not directly quoted in the article, told CNN that she and others became uncomfortable after speaking with Erdely, concluding she had "an agenda". A former student who graduated in 2013 said "the day [the article] came out was the most emotionally grueling of my life. [159] On March 30, 2016, The Washington Post reported that Jackie's lawyers requested the April deposition be cancelled, to avoid having her "revisit her sexual assault". I offer our community's genuine gratitude for their devotion and perseverance in their service. One student protester told The Cavalier Daily: "I really hope the University takes this article and the protest movement as a sign that they need to be more transparent about the way they deal with sexual assault. [48], Per records released by Yahoo under subpoena in 2016, Haven Monahan's e-mail account was created from inside the University of Virginia "only one day before that same account sent an email to Jackie's friend Ryan Duffin" in 2012. It's been over a year since Rolling Stone's big story on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia was exposed as a hoax, but the public has long lacked specific details about how UVA student Jackie Coakley concocted her wildly false story. We dont know where, Like what you read here? Wemple posited that the claims presented by the magazine were so incredible that editors should have called for further inquiry before publication. "Drew" eventually sent a photo of "himself" to Jackie's friends, but "the man depicted in that photograph never attended U. Va" and was a high-school classmate of Jackie. Jackie's account generated much media attention, and UVA President Teresa Sullivan suspended all fraternities. [38], Bruce Shapiro of Columbia University said that an engaged and empathetic reporter will be concerned about inflicting new trauma on the victim: "I do think that when the emotional valence of a story is this high, you really have to verify it."
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