JOURNALISM: Rolling Stone publisher to his alleged defamation victim: ‘I’ve suffered as much as you have.’

After it became clear that Jackie’s claims were false, the magazine appended an editor’s note to the top of the article but kept it on the website. After the Columbia Journalism Review investigated what went wrong in the reporting of the article in April 2015, the magazine finally retracted the article by removing it from the website.

Wenner also took responsibility for the problems in the article and the pain it caused for University of Virginia Dean Nicole Eramo, who is suing the magazine over her portrayal in that article.

“To the extent that we have caused you damage, and obviously we have, but the fact that we’re here, I’m very, very sorry. It was never meant to ever happen this way to you,” Wenner said. “And believe me, I’ve suffered as much as you have. And I know what it’s like. I hope that this whole thing hadn’t happened but it is, and it’s what we live with. But please, my sympathies.”

It is unclear how he suffered as much as Eramo.

It certainly is.