Stewart Blasts Rolling Stone; How Can No Be Fired for Setting Country Back on Rape?

‘This UVA story is a monumental [bleep]up territory’

STEWART: "I will fire them. I'm making a citizen's firing. Pack up your desks and give me the number of security there. I will have them escort you out. How can there be no consequences for an error of this magnitude?"
STELTER [video]: "Publisher Jann Wenner believes the report is enough punishment."
STEWART: "The report is actually not punishment at all! It is a list of things, in many circumstances, people would be punished for. You're missing the ever crucial sentencing phase. The court finds you guilty so let's all get some Italian ice. No! No,  I mean you have had to sit here and hear these terrible things you did. You must be very saddened. No. This isn't a gaffe or brain fart or whoopsee daisy, this is a big deal. You can't just deal with it by issuing a correction like the time you spelled Kesha's name with an ampersand instead of a cash money sign. That is not what happened here. She actually wasn't lost at sea either-- that also would have to be corrected in the magazine. But this UVA story is a monumental [bleep]up territory. Campus rape happens with shocking frequency, a very real underreported problem that many colleges and university administrations have met with a lack of concern and stonewalling. Victims need help and support yet somehow in a sea of verifiable assaults, you manage to 'Where's Waldo?' the only rape story that not would fail to get your point across but set the cause back. Someone's got to go. Rolling stone, I'm forced-- Rolling stone, in fact I'm forced to judge you by your own message and will give you your own harshest criticism. Three and a half stars, that's right."

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