MORE ON THE UVA DEBACLE: Rolling Stone responds to lawsuit by university dean defamed in article.

Perhaps even more chilling is the fact that Rolling Stone editors cut important disclosures from the final article. Disclosures like the fact that the sociopathic statement from one of Jackie’s friends about not wanting to participate in the article due to fraternity loyalty actually came from Jackie. Erdely had written that section to make it clear that she had not spoken to the friend and that Jackie had told her that’s what he said. Her editors reworded the section to make it seem as though Rolling Stone had actually spoken to him.

There’s also the fact that Erdely claimed she had doubts about the veracity of the story shortly after it was published, but continued to appear on news programs claiming it was accurate.

Eramo alleged in her lawsuit that the statements made about her were not the result of an innocent mistake. “They were the result of a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses, and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine, than they were about discovering the truth or actual facts,” Eramo’s lawsuit states.

Among the claims in the Rolling Stone article was a quote from Eramo calling the university that employs her a “rape school.”

Eramo’s attorney, Libby Locke, responded to Rolling Stone in a statement to the Washington Post.

“It is unfortunate, however, that Rolling Stone continues to deny wrongdoing and seeks to avoid all responsibility for their malicious and reckless journalism that has caused Dean Eramo and the entire U.Va. community so much harm,” she said.

Part of that denial of wrongdoing comes from the fact that neither Erdely nor her editors nor the fact-checkers have been fired, or even reprimanded publicly, for their involvement.

This suggests that Rolling Stone doesn’t want them talking.