[weeblewobble]

For whatever it’s worth, the “first link below” story contains this quote from the author of the first story

“ This is really, really bad. It means, of course, that when I dismissed Richard Bradley and Robby Soave's doubts about the story and called them "idiots" for picking apart Jackie's account, I was dead fucking wrong, and for that I sincerely apologize.”

[kergonath]

Indeed. Without as much as a hint of questioning why they felt completely normal to write the previous article with such stupid headline and content. If it were a company, we’d say it was a non-apology apology and that it shows they don’t want to admit the problem.

[tqi]

I think it's telling that the author's remorse was for being mean to a fellow opinion writer, as opposed to fomenting a culture of guilty until proven innocent