‘I Was Dead F***ing Wrong’: Read How One Feminist Blogger Reacted to the UVA Rape Story Bombshell
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It was a brutal story of a premeditated gang rape at one of America’s most prestigious universities — and on Friday, the magazine that published it admitted the story might not be true.
One journalist’s coverage of the saga has been drawing particular fire.
Anna Merlan, a writer for the feminist blog Jezebel, initially defended Rolling Stone’s feature story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house — “A Rape on Campus” — vocifer
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