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April 10, 2015
Rolling Stone Can't Even Apologize Right
Because most of my readers are not journalists,it seems worth noting that if this story had not fallen apart, it likely would have walked away with a National Magazine Award. It checks all the boxes: important social issue, beautiful writing, a vivid and gruesome event at its core, a heart-rending miscarriage of justice. When Jackie threatened to slip away, she was threatening to torpedo Rolling Stone's major coup. There were certainly other stories that Erdely could have used instead, but less sensational stories that are more typical of campus rapes would not get the kind of readership or professional recognition that the magazine would earn for uncovering a clear-cut and horrific crime that the university had inexplicably failed to pursue. - Bloomberg View
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 10, 2015 7:01 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Pompous flacks is an appropriate term for what works in the media today. Many are "English" majors that can't label the parts of speech. A gerund probably is what they drink after they mutilate a modifier.
Apologize? Why? After hurling invective filled incomplete sentences implicating people that never deserved so much as a prepositional phrase directed at them, a small squirt of hand sanitizer suffices for a correction.
After all, that male in the tattersall shirt might have been thinking impure thoughts.
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at April 11, 2015 7:23 AM