The ongoing story of the UVa fraternity rape had a weird news cycle. In the morning, pundits were calling for arrests. There were enough clues in the original story to figure out the identities of the guilty parties.

By the afternoon, there were serious questions about the journalistic validity of the story. The author never interviewed the accused and never mentioned her efforts to track them down for comments. That’s a no-no in Journalism 101.

Rebecca Traister said that those errors shouldn’t discount Jackie’s story.