NYP:CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner apologized in a deposition to the former University of Virginia dean who is suing the magazine for defamation — but said he disagreed with the decision to retract the entire campus-rape story, it was revealed Friday.
“I’m very, very sorry. It was never meant to ever happen this way to you,” Wenner told Nicole Eramo in taped testimony played at the
$7.85 million defamation trial.
“And believe me, I’ve suffered as much as you have,” he said. “And I know what it’s like. I hope that this whole thing hadn’t happened but it is, and it’s what we live with.”
Eramo claims the November 2014 story “A Rape on Campus” portrayed her as the “chief villain” who was cruelly indifferent to gang-rape allegations made by a former UVA student identified as “Jackie.”
The publisher said he disagreed with former managing editor Will Dana’s decision to retract the entire piece in April 2015, explaining that he still stands by everything in it except for Jackie’s account.
“It was a full retraction of our support for all the Jackie stuff in that article,” he insisted.
What else is there, apart from hyperbole???
That’s in response to this line:
“The publisher said he disagreed with former managing editor Will Dana’s decision to retract the entire piece in April 2015, explaining that he still stands by everything in it except for Jackie’s account.”
The stupid can’t protect themselves from stupid. Not possible.
We’re sorry we got caught slandering you with a false allegation while selling lots of magazines that brought in mega bucks for us. OK that last part probably isn’t true. Nobody buys Rolling Stone mag anymore. Or mad magazine. Or Billboard. Or GQ. Or Time. Or National Review. Or…..take your pick. They’re obsolete.
Take what’s left of their dough then toss them into a recycling bin.
I read Rolling Stone occasionally, back in the ’70s. Enjoyed the articles by Hunter Thompson. Last time I picked up a copy was in ’95 when Jerry Garcia died.
I doubt this magazine is relevant any more.
What a typical elitist asshole. Notice that he only apologizes to the person he recognizes as a member of the DNC ruling class. He doesn’t apologize the fraternity brothers his shitty rag of a paper libeled because… fuck them… they’re just lowly plebs. Only the ruling class matters. Fuck these damn democrat boyars. They really think they rule over us.
Gosh. Then the story is still true, we just can’t believe the lying liar that told it?