Unlike a Rolling Stone

Ed Morrissey asks the question regarding “Jackie,” Sabrina Erdely, Rolling Stone, and the truth:

What I see in this report is a reporter and a magazine more interested in promoting narratives than truth. Rolling Stone and Erdely didn’t decide to do this story after discovering Jackie; they had this story primed and ready to roll, and sought out a Jackie who could make it go viral. And as I write in my column today for The Week, it raises the question as to how many other narratives got waivers from the policies that supposedly establish Rolling Stone’s credibility, and whether other reporters will demand an answer from Jann Wenner et al [Emphasis added].

We all know that Erdely went “rape shopping” to find Jackie, and we know that her editors and her publisher let her get away with it.

I’d certainly like to think that other reporters will work to make Jann Wenner honest, but I certainly hold out no hope. If I turn out to be wrong on this one, it will be a heartwarming, faith-in-humanity-restoring kind of wrong which decent people long for.

So how do we rein in reporters, editors, and publishers who hold their progressive mission above the truth? Bill Whittle will explain in tomorrow’s Trifecta segment.