Wednesday 24 February 2016

Sabrina Erdley Rolling Stone crime was not her first.

I understand that the liar "Jackie" at the center of the retracted story of Sabrin Erdley has been ordered to appear in court and be deposed for the Defamation against Rolling Stone magazine by Nicole Eramo, an associate dean at the University of Virginia.

It now appears that this was not the first time that Sabina Erdley wrote a salacious sex story based on little more than lies by a highly questionable source.  Sadly the legal outcome was not very good even though it shed a fair amount of doubt on the prime subject in the case.

The question has to be asked why journalism - especially "progressive" journalism - is so vulnerable to these kinds of frauds.    In the comments someone brought to light the similarity to Stephen Glass - a New Republic wunderkind journalist who was unmasked as an breathtaking fraud in 1998.  

Here was an interview with him on CBS 60 Minutes explaining his modus operndi and he became more and more entwined in his crime.


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