That's a picture from today of part of the first page of the website for the Columbia Journalism Review.
This is another picture of part of the first page of that website:
This is another picture of part of the first page of that website:
This is a picture of the first part of the first page of that website:
There seems to be much anticipation building for the Columbia Journalism Review's written discussion of the original Rolling Stone article about rape at the University of Virginia.
That's a picture from today of the first part of the first page of Yahoo search results for the search term "rolling stone uva article."
The first article that corresponds with the first search result says that the discussion of the Rolling Stone article will be written by Steve Coll.
The website for the Columbia Journalism School describes Mr. Coll as "Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism." The page about him at that website lists his many achievements and starts by saying that he writes for the magazine "The New Yorker."
This is a picture from today of the first part of the first page of the website for The New Yorker:
Is The New Yorker prominently featuring an article by Mr. Coll to remind everyone of what a capable, intelligent and respected journalist he is so that, when he publishes his discussion of the Rolling Stone article, that discussion will be met without question and considered the final word on the subject? That could be very helpful to everyone who wants to sue Rolling Stone, and possibly also "Jackie," couldn't it?
This is another picture of part of the first page of the website for The New Yorker:
This is a picture from today of the Yahoo search result for the New Yorker website that is on the first page of search results for the search term "new yorker cover":
This is a picture from today of what the first page that corresponds to that website looks like:
It never fails to astonish me how much time and effort "the establishment" spends ridiculing everyone who isn't a white man. It doesn't even matter to the people who run that establishment if the people whom it's ridiculing have conflict with each other; perhaps the uber-powerful find that conflict amusing, while they glance lazily down at the glass floor which is everyone else's ceiling and see everyone who isn't them fighting over what's left of the world's power.
I have no opinion about Mr. Coll's article about Iran. I have not read it, and would hesitate to give opinions about it if I did read it; I'm sure that he knows much more about Iran than I do.
What I do know is that Columbia University is part of the Ivy League. The University of Virginia is not technically part of the Ivy League. It is, though, considered to be an elite school, and the power dynamic which wends its way through the elite institutions of the United States is clearly absent neither there nor at any Ivy League school. Ivy, the plant, looks pretty sprawling over buildings; it is also part of the vegetation category known as "creeper plants." To attempt to curb part of it is, from the plant's perspective, to attack the entire clinging, insidious thing.
People who are good at what they do have to work somewhere. To work for a prestigious business or to attend a prestigious school is not to don an automatic or permanent mantle of shame. Hopefully, Mr. Coll will produce a truthful and accurate discussion of the Rolling Stone article, and will not then be fired or attacked by the conglomerate media. I'm not sure what the website for the Columbia Journalism Review is trying to say about plagiarism; however, I won't take offense if Mr. Coll considers the pages I have written about the article and amends the document that he's writing accordingly.
She had no reason to lie. She's at the beginning of her life, which is part of why she was naive enough to be an attractive victim to predators. She's been through too much already.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 29, 2015 @ 7:19 p.m.
