DoubleX Gabfest: The Aftermath of Rolling Stone Edition
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In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins Outward editor June Thomas and New York editor Noreen Malone to discuss Rolling Stone’s flawed story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia and campus sexual assault.
Other items discussed in the show:
- The Rolling Stone story on gang rape at a frat.
- “The College Rape Overcorrection” by Emily Yoffe
- Vox on rape trauma and memory.
- Margaret Talbot in the New Yorker on why journalists can’t just believe.
- Katie Roiphe’s book, The Morning After.
DoubleX recommendations:
Noreen loves My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Hanna recommends you read “Babies in the Freezer,” an amazing story about pregnancy denial and women who kill their newborns.
June is reading In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
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