The Rolling Stone / UVa thing: what did the UVa President do wrong?

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I suspect the story got more fantastical every time it was iterated.

I mean, you read the article Rolling Stone originally printed, and it's flat-out horrific. It's like something out of A Clockwork Orange, it's so awful.

Presumably Erdly thought she was sitting on an Earth-Shaking scoop, one that would rip the lid off the festering diseased University and Fraternity culture. And if was anything resembling even remotely true, she would have been right.

Obviously there were a lot of red flags that were ignored on the road to press.