The story of an alleged gang rape at UVA has taken an unexpected new turn, one that puts the accuser’s story in a new light. According to a report in the Washington Post,the woman known as Jackie wanted to start
Obama supporters continue to find out the hard way that the reality of Obamacare stands in stark contrast to the rhetorical promises of Obamacare. Case in point: Obama supporter Catherine Keefe. On Wednesday, the Washington Post published an essay by
Eugene Volokh, of the Washington Post blog The Volokh Conspiracy, takes to task a TIME article accusing Breitbart News’ John Nolte of attempting to disprove the claim that Lena Dunham was raped. The TIME piece in question states: Following the
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber refused to stand by a quotation describing him as “possibly the [Democratic] Party’s most influential healthcare expert” that he put in his own book on Tuesday. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) read a passage from Gruber’s book
Pivot TV’s Take Part Live, which is hosted by Meghan McCain, has been cancelled due to high production costs and low ratings. The network announced on Monday that the final episode will air some time before the end of 2014.
In a piece published Saturday in the Washington Post, attorney Zerlina Maxwell argues that we should always err on the side of believing alleged rape victims. Unfortunately, her vision of justice would allow serious consequences to fall upon alleged perpetrators
This article was originally published by jonathanturley.org There are two separate controversies this week over rape stories that have been challenged by critics. Both stories involve leading U.S. universities. Unlike the Duke Lacrosse controversy, neither school is accused of wrongdoing. Rolling Stone
A few short hours after the House GOP posted Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page $1.1 trillion omnibus bill text on its website, the website failed. The bill text–both the PDF and the XML versions–went down around 11 p.m. on Wednesday night,
Chris Cillizza, Editor of the Washington Post‘s “The Fix” argued that Jeb Bush is thinking about running for president because “he could help bring the Republican Party where it needs to go” on issues like immigration, but is wary about
It has been more than four days since Breitbart News published a detailed investigative report debunking Lena Dunham’s claim in her memoir that, as an Oberlin college student, she had been raped by a mustachioed campus Republican named Barry. Thus
Washington Post legal writer Eugene Volokh reacted harshly to the admission from Random House Monday that “Barry” is indeed a pseudonym and that Barry One is not the man identified as a rapist in Dunham’s memoir, Not That Kind of
After two months of requests made through his attorney, the man Breitbart News identified as “Barry One” in an investigative report published last week has, at least, been exonerated by Lena Dunham’s publisher, Random House. The publishing giant didn’t apologize. Nor
Media Matters has long advertised to the public a commitment to fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating misinformation of its own. The nonprofit generally targets Republicans and is regularly cited by pundits and news outlets. More recently, the group engaged in
In response to Rolling Stone Editor Offers 2nd Apology Amid Intense Criticism: What a season of journalistic meltdowns we’ve had! From the grand jury demolition of Ferguson mythology, to the media’s bizarre obsession with the Facebook postings of an obscure
The mother and girlfriend of Rumain Brisbon, a black man killed by a white police officer Tuesday night in Phoenix, do not want the ensuing narrative to focus on race. Nora Brisbon, the victim’s mother, who is black, and Dana
After music magazine Rolling Stone made a public apology for getting its blockbuster college gang rape story wrong, the media critic of The Washington Post said that the UVA hoax revealed a major case of media bias. On Friday, November
First Lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that college “has to be for everyone,” and that students who enter college are often the ones who can afford to go and have been “shepherded through every step of the process.” In various
Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana offered a series of tweets Friday afternoon which seem to offer a more abject apology for the magazines failure to check the facts in a widely read story about an alleged gang-rape at UVA.
Fox News Channel Media Analyst and “MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz said that Rolling Stone “brushed away” important questions about and “stubbornly stood by” its story on a rape on the University of Virginia’s campus on Friday’s “Happening Now.” After hearing
The managing editor of Rolling Stone, Will Dana, issued a statement on Friday apologizing to readers and suggested that many of the claims in their blockbuster story on gang rape at the University of Virginia were inaccurate. The story in question,
Not since U2 gave its new album to every Apple iTunes user whether they wanted it or not has music felt this much like a threat. Produced by a group called Stand with Hillary, the country music video walks a
After Breitbart News’ comprehensive report debunking Lena Dunham’s reported rape at the hands of “campus Republican” Barry, the Washington Post’s Eugene Volokh reported that “Barry One” – the campus Republican tabbed by the media as the probable suspect in the
Two weeks ago the Center for American Progress made a concerted effort to claim that Jonathan Gruber was wrong in some of his embarrassing statements caught on video. But it turned out it was CAP that had it wrong, not
On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to the New York City grand jury’s decision not to indict a NYC police officer for the chokehold death of Eric Garner. “The timing is
The public relations firm hired by Baylor has been forced into public relations on its own behalf following characterizations of it as a pressure group hired to help push the Bears into the college football playoff. “We had no contact
