Rolling Stone publisher Jann S. Wenner placed at least some of the blame for his magazine’s failure to accurately report an alleged gang-rape on the accuser, calling her “a really expert fabulist storyteller.”
Wenner, in an interview with the New York Times, said that Jackie, the sole source of information in the now-retracted article, manipulated the magazine, presumably by failing to respond or provide corroboration when asked.
Still, Wenner insisted that he was not blaming Jackie for his magazine’s failures, which a Columbia Journalism Review autopsy found to be numerous beyond a lack of corroboration. But Wenner did add that “obviously there is something here that is untruthful, and something sits at her doorstep.”
That’s some mighty tough talk from someone who isn’t pushing to fire anyone at his magazine who fell for Jackie’s lies.
