Sabrina Rubin Erdely's Rolling Stone UVA piece made lots of waves. It was also a lie. Rolling Stone belatedly fired her after the magazine got dragged into a major lawsuit, but the whole thing went forward because it was easier that way.
In the filing, Eramo’s attorney quote a deposition given by UVA activist Alex Pinkleton, who helped Erdely with the preparation of the article. Pinkleton says she spoke with Erdely December 5, the same day Rolling Stone posted an apology for factual errors in its story. According to her deposition, Pinkleton says Erdely “basically admitted … she should have completely rewritten [the story] and regrets that she didn’t.”
Why wasn’t the story re-written? Primarily, Pinkleton says, because Erdely didn’t want to put in the necessary work to put out a story she trusted.
“Erdely admitted to Pinkleton that she knew she should have rewritten the story but that ‘rewriting the whole story was so much work,'” the court filing says.
That's Rolling Stone journalism.