Posted on 12/07/2014 12:42:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Rolling Stones journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely has written yet another problematic story, GotNews.com has learned.
Erdely may be in the news these days for a botched story on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia but writing thinly sourced problematic stories isn’t a new occurrence for her.
One of Erdely’s most celebrated works of journalism, also for Rolling Stone, is full of unsubstantiated claims and tentative connections written in a ham-handed attempt to politicize a series of personal tragedies. The story, published in 2012 and titled “School of Hate,” tries to drag then-Congresswoman Michele Bachmann into complicity in a wave of suicides that struck a school district she represented.
The connection? Some of those students who killed themselves were gay.
Though Erdely herself admits in the story that some of the students who killed themselves were not gay or connected to the reported struggles of gay teenagers, she nevertheless frames the story as if the suicides are the result of a stately neutral policy concerning school officials instructing students about homosexuality. A policy that was the result of parents and local leaders asking to have their Christian children spared any public teaching about homosexuality.
For Erdely a policy of neutrality encourages bullying and somehow offered a silent consent from the school for the troubled teens to kill themselves. To back up her claims Erdely continuously quotes the troubled students and uses their version of events as the official narrative. In at least one case, that of Justin Aaberg, Erdely gives descriptions of events from the perspective of the already deceased student relying on third party information.
In all the detailed cases of teen suicide bullying based on sexual orientation is fingered as the culprit and conservative groups positioned as the villains for daring to want a neutral policy on homosexuality from school officials. The fact that many schools have this policy and have had a neutral policy on teaching homosexuality for generations without a wave of suicides is apparently irrelevant.
Whether the events alleged by the teenage students, many of whom were hospitalized for psychiatric reasons, happened at all or in the way they described them remains unknown. What is known is that Erdely has a pattern of taking one view of a story and generalizing it to the entire situation. Something she clearly demonstrated in both the stories on University of Virginia and “School of Hate.” Not surprisingly it is a liberal storyline that castes those celebrating tradition in the church or fraternity house as monsters.
Though Rolling Stone issued a retraction for the UVA story, they have yet to take back Erdely’s hit piece on Michele Bachmann.
The activist gay organization GLAAD even awarded Erdeley for her thinly sourced journalism.
I guess they forgot the apostrophe.
SFL
And people are beginning to connect the dots.
Rough waters ahead for the Revolution.
Justina Pelletier is back in the hospital. Her parents took her out of Yale Children's, and now she's at Philadelphia Children's.
I took a lot of heat around here over that case, and I believe the truth is about to emerge.
Well said.
Rolling Stone is rolling down the hill in the direction tabloid magazine section at your local grocery store.
Sabrina? That’s a witches name, may we burn her? A witch, a witch.
“Rolling Stone has always been a lying leftist rag. When P J O’Rourke started sucking up to Rolling Stone, I knew he was a fraud.”
He starting writing for them in 1981, if you bothered to check, as the conservative voice of it. It was at Rolling Stone that he became famous, not the other way around.
A “Rolling Stone” may gather no Moss, but it sure gathers crap!
“A leftist, homosexual-worshipping, activist, radical feminist Jew who lied in a magazine article? Is the source reliable? I have a hard time bringing this into focus.”
And what is the point about dragging her religion (if you were able to confirm she has any beliefs at all) into it? You do know that most of the Jewish kids being born these days are into Orthodox/Conservative families these days, don’t you?
That’s disgusting on your part and a big part in how this website has sometimes forgotten what it is.
Correct. In fact, the author of this article, Charles C. Johnson, is a well know purveyor of mis-info and has been caught in many out and out lies. I'm surprised that Fox is carrying his stuff since other right wing media will have nothing to do with him because of his "history". He's the one who wrote story about Sen. Menendez and the underage hookers and the story about Sen Cochran paying $10 per black vote.
Do a google search of him. But, don't confuse Charles C. Johnson with Charles Johnson who writes for Little Green Footballs.
Only a very cheap thin glass bottle might break under the circumstances described. Certainly not bottles here in this country.
This “journalist” needs to go to jail for a long time.
Thanks, I did not know that about this guy.
Just WOW! >:(
I watched my brother throw a coke bottle at the head of another kid and score a strike - right in the center of his forehead. It was perfect - literally the center of his forehead.
Had it not hit the boy in that spot, I’m quite sure the other boy may have been killed or severly injured.
The bottle shattered into a million pieces, with NONE hitting the kids eye. I see it like it was yesterday.
The kid was knocked straight back on his back. He then got up and started screaming.
To make matters more miraculous, the bottle was one of the think, 12 ounce serving Coca Cola bottles they used to sell in the machines that held the bottle back by the neck in a rack. You open the little fridge door and pull them out.
It was an according to hoyle miracle. My brother missed killing or severely injuring a kid by centimeters in the horizontal or vertical directions.
“this is an agenda driven journalist. Her goal is to advance liberalism and if the facts don’t back up her agenda then she’ll discard it.”
Another “Fake, but accurate!” Production.
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