article_snippet.sent: (CNN)A jury of Rolling Stone's media peers has dissected the magazine's disastrous, discredited story about rape on the campus of the University of Virginia, and the emerging consensus is that Rolling Stone's lapses and sloppy blunders amount to journalistic malpractice -- made all the worse by the magazine's head-in-the sand reaction to the thorough, devastating report released by a panel of investigators from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
article_snippet.sent: Rolling Stone's Rolling Stone'segregious mistakes of reporting and editing are regrettable but understandable.
article_snippet.sent: Before the original story, "A Rape on Campus," was pulled from the Rolling Stone website, the Rolling Stone registered 2.7 million hits following the Rolling Stone publication in November -- more than any noncelebrity story in the magazine's history.
article_snippet.sent: But the original story began to unravel almost immediately when Washington Post reporter T. Rees Shapiro took a closer look, leading Rolling Stone's to back away from the original story and request a review by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
article_snippet.sent: Having worked part time as a journalism professor for a decade (including one semester at Columbia), I would agree with colleagues who call Rolling Stone's lapses the kind that would be unacceptable in a freshman classroom.
article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately, the early word from Rolling Stone is that they've absorbed none of these lessons.
article_snippet.sent: Rolling Stone Rolling Stone in Rolling Stone heyday write about an institution that screwed up unbelievably, damaged people's lives, but punished no one?
article_snippet.sent: Rolling Stone outsources Rolling Stone investigation to Columbia and proceeds to do nothing in terms of individual accountability afterward?
article_snippet.sent: Rolling Stone senior editors are unanimous in the belief that the story's failure does not require Rolling Stone's senior editors to change Rolling Stone's senior editors editorial systems," the Columbia report says.
article_snippet.sent: That smug attitude pretty much ensures Rolling Stone newsroom managers will commit another goof in the future.
article_snippet.sent: The problem could be, says Grueskin, that Rolling Stone had too many chefs in the kitchen, instead of "a single, talented editor with an intact set of vertebrae.
article_snippet.sent: Until Wenner and Wenner team learn that basic lesson -- and revamp Wenner and his team hiring, editing and fact-checking process accordingly -- the Rolling Stone fiasco will eventually be followed by another, one made less forgivable because we all saw it coming.
highlights_snippet.sent: Columbia journalism school team finds major lapses in Rolling Stone's University of Virginia rape story .
  