Recalled article - Alyssa Hamilton

After being inspected by the police and “proved” incorrect Rolling Stone magazine retracted the discredited story which mentioned an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. The article was taken down after being described as a “journalistic failure that was avoidable.” The magazine's managing editor herself was quoted as saying that “The report was painful reading, to me personally and to all of us at Rolling Stone,” in an editor’s note that was appended to the outside review above mentioed that was published on Rolling Stone’s website on Sunday.

This most directly relates to yellow journalism in US history, many times people or newspapers have tried to pass off news that was false to the people. Not out of disrespect to the people but instead in an attempt to sell more newspapers. 

 

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