J 301F Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Emmett Till, The Takeaway

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Rolling Stone Gets It Wrong

What is at issue is not the intent but translating the story with journalism.

Timeliness

• High profile cases had occurred on campuses across the nation.

• Need for an improvement of policies.

• History of campus assault cases being mishandled by universities.

• Departet of Eduatio as leaig o uiersities to address the issue.

Link to Emmitt Till

• Bring a critical question of social justice to public attention.

• How well we see the realness of our own society.

• Questions jouralists’ ethis ad role.

Ethics

• Ethics: deals with telling the difference between right and wrong.

• Journalistic ethics: what we can learn from mistakes.

Rolling Stone

• Founded in 1967

• Mainly music, counter-culture movement.

• Avowed toward mainstream.

• Challenged by a sharp decline in the magazine business.

Timeline

• July 2014 Rolling Stone reporter asks UVA counselor to locate subject.

• July-Otoer: Iterie Jakie.

• Noeer: A Rape o Capus pulished- 2.7 million page views.

• November-December: Washington post begins to question story.

• April 2015: Rolling Stone retracts story.

Who Is at Fault?

• Difficult to blame sources even though they are morally and ethically wrong when they lie.

• It is our job as reporters to dig deeper and verify the truth.

Questions About Reporter

• Was Erdely inexperienced? No.

• What reporting Challenges did she face?

• What was her central dilemma?

• She thought she had her hands on a huge story, so she went with the source without ever questions their

legitimacy.

• Mistakes came when the reporter had a preconceived notion about a story that led her to error.

• Everyone with a dog in the fight deserved a voice in her story.

• Felt the need to get the story out quickly because she had this preconceived subject for her reporting and

belieed uiersities ere’t hadlig rape ases o apuses orretly.

• Verification was main problem, too dependent on single source.

• Cetral dilea: Ho to idepedetly erify the soure ithout losig Jakie’s trust.

Questions About Editors

• Will Dana and Sean Woods.

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