In U.Va. case, judge 'Rolling Stone' not student: Your Say

Rolling Stone issued an apology for its article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, stating it hadn't checked key aspects of the account.

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We can't judge this University of Virginia case. But where there is smoke, there is often fire. Let the judicial system work it out — not the press, not the bloggers, not the protesters.

—Scott Hardy

Didn't anyone at Rolling Stone read about the Duke lacrosse team incident, during which students were falsely accused of rape? Rolling Stone didn't thoroughly fact-check. Instead, it seems, those involved in writing and publishing the story threw a bunch of people under the bus to sell magazines.

—Andrew Zink

For every Duke lacrosse incident, there are hundreds of rapes that go unreported.

By hiding behind that Duke story, people are questioning the credibility of hundreds of women who have been raped.

—Michael W. Manjerovic

As an activist says in the Paste BN article "Rolling Stone retraction complicates fraught rape story," the Rolling Stone piece hurt the alleged rape victim as well.

So before people start judging her, they should get their facts straight. This type of judgmental attitude is the reason there's a negative culture to begin with.

—Matthew Bartlett

Some people are getting this case wrong. At this point, the accusations of rape have not been proven false.

The problem is that there are inconsistencies between the account and the article. Multiple people have come to this woman's defense.

—Luke Duncan