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Accused UVA Fraternity To Sue Rolling Stone
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UVA Fraternity to Sue Rolling Stone
For 'Reckless' and 'Defamatory' Rape Story
Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi said it would pursue all available legal action against the magazine after Columbia University issued a damning report on the article
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The University of Virginia fraternity chapter at the center of Rolling Stone magazine’s retracted article A Rape on Campus said on Monday that it planned to sue the magazine for what it called “reckless” reporting that hurt its reputation.
Stephen Scipione, the president of UVA’s Phi Kappa Psi chapter, told CNN Money that the fraternity – or all-male university society – is pursuing “all available legal action against the magazine, a day after a team from the Columbia University graduate school of journalism concluded the magazine failed to follow basic journalistic safeguards in publishing the story."
In November 2014, the magazine published Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s article, which claimed there was a gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. Soon after the article was published, and the school temporarily suspended all fraternities, questions were raised about the veracity of the article.
On Sunday, Columbia released its independent review of the reporting and editing of the article. The analysis concluded that the magazine had failed to follow “basic, even routine journalistic practice”. A month earlier, the Charlottesville police department said it had to suspend its investigation into the article’s claims, after the main subject, Jackie, refused to cooperate with the investigation.
“After 130 days of living under a cloud of suspicion as a result of reckless reporting by Rolling Stone magazine, today the Virginia Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Psi announced plans to pursue all available legal action against the magazine,” the fraternity said in a statement.[...]
The scathing, 13,000-word report, released by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on Sunday, concluded that the magazine had failed to follow “basic, even routine journalistic practice”. [...]
“We do [however] disagree with any suggestion that this was Jackie’s fault,” said Coll. [...]
In response to the report’s blistering findings, Rolling Stone has said it will review its editorial process, but doesn’t believe the policies need to be changed or overhauled. The magazine has also said it wouldn’t fire anyone over the article.
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