3 1/2 pages of Phi Kappa Psi accusing Rolling Stone of malicious lies,cover-ups, conspiracies, and the intent to ruin the reputations ofinnocent people
October 28, 2017
Those 3 1/2 pages are only the beginning of the lawsuit, which is 339 pages.
Those are pictures of Phi Kappa Psi's lawsuit accusing Rolling Stone of not wanting "facts (to) get in the way."
This is the address for a copy of the lawsuit:
This is the address for a page that I wrote in 2016, about Mr. Shapiro's many discrepancies in his reporting about the Rolling Stone article; Mr. Shapiro has never taken responsibility for any of them:
http://homelesspeoplearepeople.blogspot.com/2016/07/mr-shapiro-seems-to-have-deliberately.html
In the January 8, 2016 article by Mr. Shapiro, called "'Catfishing over love interest might have spurred U-Va. gang-rape debacle," Mr. Shapiro does not mention the following:
-that the date for Ryan's birthday, for which Jackie had paid hundreds of dollars for concert tickets and bus tickets for one of Ryan's favorite bands, had not yet taken place by the time that Jackie was raped
-that it was only after the rape that Ryan broke that date with Jackie
-that Ryan breaking the date with Jackie is part of the text messages that were sent between Ryan and Jackie after the rape
The answer to Ryan's supposed befuddlement to Mr. Shapiro in the article, in which Ryan is quoted as saying "I was wondering how I didn't see through it way earlier" seems to be that Ryan was flattered and wanted to go to the concert, before Jackie was turned into a gang-rape victim by Drew.
It is unfortunate for Rolling Stone that its attempt to take responsibility for alleged errors of which it was accused by Mr. Shapiro, evidenced by Rolling Stone asking the Columbia Journalism Review to investigate Rolling Stone's reporting methods, were negligently betrayed by the CJR's failure to know or investigate fraternity tactics of subterfuge. They are tactics that anyone can read about by doing Internet searches about unregistered fraternity parties and webpages written by older, adult members of fraternities about how undergraduate fraternities should address situations such as pledges who are passed out from alcohol poisoning or young women who don't meekly accept that they deserved to be raped. Those types of webpages even discuss how fraternities should talk to the media.
It is also typical of Phi Kappa Psi's arrogance that its lawsuit:
-accuses Rolling Stone of failing to take responsibility for the Rolling Stone article
-uses Rolling Stone's ill-fated collaboration with the CJR as proof of Rolling Stone's negligence
-exploits Rolling Stone's fearful and unnecessary apology as proof that Rolling Stone should be sued
I have never taken a media class. I had never known that there was a reason to question the media before most of the American media began to promote sexual crime against women and children in 2010. I have had to interact with the media in one way or another almost every day since 2010. Despite all of my interactions with the media for all of these years, I have never heard of a media source voluntarily asking to have its reporting audited. Rolling Stone's reverence for the Washington Post and trust in the Columbia Journalism Review led to its downfall. The Columbia Journalism Review committed the journalistic failures of which it accused others in major ways, both in its failure to investigate the veracity of counterclaims by Phi Kappi Psi and in its appalling deference to the prestige and power of the University of Virginia's administration, whose version of events the CJR accepted without hesitation and without proof.
Rolling Stone didn't, as it is repeatedly accused of by the Phi Kappa Psi lawsuit, "intentionally and deliberately" hurt anyone or lie about anything; Phi Kappa Psi did.
As evidenced by the mistaken time that Jackie gave to Ms. Erdely about when the rape occurred, Jackie didn't really know at what time she was raped. As evidenced by the many television interviews that Ryan and one of Jackie's other former friends gave after the Washington Post had succeeded in discrediting the Rolling Stone article, Ryan and their mutual friends didn't really know at what time Jackie was raped.
However, fraternity members at the Phi Kappa Psi house did know when Jackie was raped, because, according to the Charlottesville Police Department's March 23, 2015 statement, Phi Kappa Psi had a time-stamped photograph to give to the Charlottesville Police Department from the night of September 28, 2012. The photograph is time-stamped September 28, 2012, 11:33 p.m. which is almost precisely when Jackie was texting with Ryan after the alleged rape.
How many fraternity members are taking pictures that allegedly prove there's nothing happening at their fraternity houses on a Friday night at around 11:30 p.m., during the last weekend of September? How many fraternities have pictures of nothing happening to give to police officers who investigate alleged rape, 2 1/2 years after the rape was alleged to have occurred?
The Charlottesville Police Department's statement was published before Jackie's texts with anyone were published. The time-stamped photograph was yet another confession of guilt which Phi Kappa Psi gave as an alibi.
That's a picture of part of the Charlottesville Police Department's March 23, 2015 statement, as printed in full by the Washington Post.
That's the address of the police statement.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 28, 2017 @ 2:42 p.m.
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