Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story wins Error of the Year from Poynter's Craig Silverman in his annual roundup of the year's most notable media missteps and corrections: "It should go down as one of the most cautionary tales of confirmation bias in journalism. It’s also an example of how to not to behave when your organization publishes a disastrous piece of reporting." Silverman contrasts the Rolling Stone-walling with mea culpas from Deadspin and io9.
December 30, 2014
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