Reporting on Rape
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
A Rolling Stone magazine story about rape on campus led the University of Virginia to suspend fraternities. Since then, the article has become a sensation as much for what it got wrong as for what it reported. How should “sexual misconduct” be defined by journalists, college administrators and the law?
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| 0:35.2 | To the Point. Sexual assault, journalism is To the Point. |
| 0:40.2 | Sexual assault, journalism, and the law. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:49.8 | a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:57.5 | Rolling Stone magazine first blamed the victim when it learned of errors in its explosive story of gang rape at the University of Virginia. |
| 1:05.9 | Now it's confessed to bad reporting and worse editing. The incident dramatizes the challenge of getting the story right when it comes to sexual assault on campus. |
| 1:11.7 | Some say college officials are failing to deal with an epidemic of violence against women. Others say they're trampling on the rights of accused men. Should criminal charges be turned over to the police |
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| 1:58.7 | Stone magazine story about rape on campus |
| 2:01.2 | led the University of Virginia to suspend fraternities. Since then, the article has become a sensation |
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