Social Justice™ cancer rag, Jezebel, which has been churning out for decades purple-haired freaks with hairy armpits who devote their lives to rampaging against the Patriarchy™, has finally shuttered its doors after failing to find a buyer.
Let's break out our smallest violins, ladies and gentlemen.
Via The New York Times:
The parent company of the website Jezebel announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the site and laying off its staff, citing economic headwinds and shifting audience priorities.
The layoffs will affect 23 people, including the Jezebel team, Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of G/O Media, said in a memo to the company’s staff. He also announced that the G/O Media editorial director, Merrill Brown, would be departing the company.
“While G/O Media is a lean, nimble organization, we are not immune to the economic headwinds rattling our business,” Mr. Spanfeller wrote.
“Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s,” he added.
Mr. Spanfeller said that G/O Media had tried to sell Jezebel and had talked with “over two dozen potential buyers,” but that it did not find a new home for the site. The company owns and operates several digital media outlets, including Gizmodo, Quartz and Deadspin.
As far as I’m concerned, Jezebel’s legacy is best encapsulated in the microcosm of the Rolling Stone rape hoax to trump all rape hoaxes, which allegedly occurred at The University of Virginia in the early 2010s.
Here is the outlet attacking as an “idiot” the journalist Robby Suave for raising obvious questions about the inconsistencies in “Jackie” (who couldn’t be bothered to put her real name behind the allegations; never a good sign for an alleged rape victim’s credibility) about what happened on the night in question.
Via Jezebel, Dec. 1, 2014:
Ever since journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely published her searing Rolling Stone story about “Jackie,” a woman who was allegedly the victim of a gang rape at a frat party at the University of Virginia, there’s been an ongoing and much-needed public conversation about the way rape and sexual assault claims are dealt with on college campuses. But Robby Soave at the libertarian magazine Reason thinks we’re talking about the wrong questions entirely. Shouldn’t we be asking, he wonders, if Jackie just, like, made the whole story up?
Soave writes that Erdely’s story is “not credible,” according to “journalists who contemplate such matters.” Which journalists, exactly? One, to be precise, a guy by the name of Richard Bradley, who writes on his blog that he doesn’t believe the story: “I don’t believe that it happened—certainly not in the way that it is recounted."
A mere four days later, Rolling Stone was forced to issue a retraction of their initial rape hoax story.
Via Rolling Stone, Dec. 5, 2014:
Last month, Rolling Stone published a story entitled A Rape on Campus, which described a brutal gang rape of a woman named Jackie during a party at a University of Virginia fraternity house, the University’s failure to respond to this alleged assault – and the school’s troubling history of indifference to many other instances of alleged sexual assaults. The story generated worldwide headlines and much soul-searching at UVA. University president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and also to examine the way the school investigates sexual assault allegations.
Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie’s story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man who she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men who she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her. In the months Sabrina Rubin Erdely reported the story, Jackie said or did nothing that made her, or Rolling Stone‘s editors and fact-checkers, question her credibility. Jackie’s friends and rape activists on campus strongly supported her account. She had spoken of the assault in campus forums. We reached out to both the local branch and the national leadership of Phi Psi, the fraternity where Jackie said she was attacked. They responded that they couldn’t confirm or deny her story but that they had questions about the evidence…
In the face of new information reported by the Washington Post and other news outlets, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie’s account*. The fraternity has issued a formal statement denying the assault and asserting that there was no “date function or formal event” on the night in question. Jackie herself is now unsure if the man she says lured her into the room where the rape occurred, identified in the story as “Drew,” was a Phi Psi brother. According to the Washington Post, “Drew” actually belongs to a different fraternity and when contacted by the paper, he denied knowing Jackie.
*”Discrepancy” is a euphemism for “bald-faced lie that we swallowed and regurgitated for our leadership wholesale as outrage porn.” Obviously, even ever having been conclusively proven by the totality of the evidence to have totally manufactured a rape account for fifteen minutes of fame, a rape hoaxer can’t be called a “liar” in liberal media, which would be tantamount to a hate crime.
