Actor Sean Penn said Monday he has “nothin’ to hide” about his clandestine visit to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, dismissing criticism over his interview with the fugitive who was captured two days ago.
Matt Damon is jumping to the defense of fellow actor Sean Penn amid mounting criticism of Penn’s clandestine exclusive interview for Rolling Stone with violent Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
As the media whirlwind continues over the highly controversial interview of Mexican kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán by actor Sean Penn, many people keep asking about the woman he partnered up with to broker the meeting. Who is this Mexican actress best known for her television role as the female counterpart to Guzmán?
Last night, Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera,conducted by Hollywood actor Sean Penn. Mexican actress Kate del Castillo was also present at the meeting, which took place last September 28. Penn later made a detailed narration of the events for the magazine, and recalled a 7-hour conversation with the drug lord who was absolutely unapologetic and seemed very much at ease while talking to the actor. In addition, Guzmán also dedicated a video interview to del Castillo and Penn.
In a move reminiscent of then-ABC journalist John Miller’s 1998 interview of deceased terrorist Osama Bin Laden, actor Sean Penn has interviewed the Western Hemisphere’s most notorious drug lord and fugitive under legally questionable circumstances.
The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a discredited “Rolling Stone” article that alleged members of the frat house gang-raped a freshman during a party has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against the magazine.
Having recently wrapped up his band’s 24th consecutive American summer tour, Dave Matthews tells Rolling Stone Americans should be more accepting of illegal immigrants, while also blasting Republican presidential candidates and praising socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.
I’ve just watched the latest Rolling Stone video on climate change featuring an exclusive hour-long interview with President Obama – and I’m scared. Really scared. The first thing that scares me is what it says about the decline of journalism
Trevor Noah believes America suffers from a level of institutionalized racial segregation.
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Empire co-star Terrence Howard opened up about the highs and lows of his life and career, while also revealing how one violent incident involving his father forever changed him.
Rolling Stone’s managing editor Will Dana is leaving his position at the entertainment magazine as the publication faces lawsuits over an article falsely accusing a University of Virginia fraternity of gang rape.
Thomas James Gabel, the transgender front man for the punk rock band Against Me!, who now goes by Laura Jane Grace, recently met up with members of the LGBT-inspired Scottish punk group Spook School for a discussion filmed by Rolling Stone.
While on tour to promote his 1985 album Southern Accents, Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers at times performed alongside a Confederate flag; a decision he now says was “downright stupid.”
She’s not a big rock singer, but reality TV star Kim Kardashian can see her “smilin’ face” on the cover of this month’s Rolling Stone, and Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor isn’t happy about it.
Texas abortion clinics have lost again at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; however, the Court complied with the abortion provider’s request for a ruling by June 19th so they would have time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. July 1st is the date that the Fifth Circuit ruled that abortion providers must close their clinics.
Comedian and actor Ed Helms drew laughter with a slew of jokes as he delivered a commencement address at the University of Virginia Friday, but also took time to criticize Rolling Stone for the damage done to the school by its false UVA rape story.
In a first for the embattled publication, one of Rolling Stone’s cover boys was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Boston late Friday afternoon. This is a double whammy this week for the left-wing publication. On top of
Nicole Eramo, the UVA Dean who became the unwitting villain of Rolling Stone’s story “A Rape on Campus,” has sued the magazine for $7.5 million.
A University of Virginia associate dean sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for more than $7.5 million, saying a debunked account of an alleged gang rape on campus cast her as the “chief villain.”
A new study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has added fuel to the argument that the MMR vaccine is not causing autism.
Canadian rock band Death from Above 1979 has released an eccentric new music video for its new song, called “Virgins,” which highlights the adolescent corruption of sex, drugs, and rock and roll
The young man who has for months been publicly accused of being a “serial rapist” by Emma Sulkowicz–known as “mattress girl”–is now suing Columbia University for not preventing her public vendetta against him.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said that she hopes coverage like the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax is “putting more of a spotlight on the problem” of campus sexual assault in an interview at the Women in the World summit released
On April 17 Rolling Stone columnist Andrew Leahey tried to counter pro-2nd Amendment activists’ pushback on Tim McGraw’s Sandy Hook Promise gun control fundraiser by mocking Breitbart News’s reporting and then downplaying the group’s anti-gun agenda.
On April 14, Breitbart News reported that country singers Tim McGraw and Billy Currington would be headlining a gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise on July 17.
Richard Bradley, a writer and editor who questioned Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus” story soon after its publication, reacts to the Columbia School of Journalism investigation of “what went wrong” with the reporting of that article–an investigation that cites his own early criticism by name.
Fox News Media Analyst and “MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz declared Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story “one of the worst journalistic catastrophes of the last half-century” in an interview on Monday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “This is one
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that Rolling Stone was ” tricked by their own biases” not the accuser “Jackie” in their now-discredited UVA rape story on Monday’s broadcast of “The Five” “The magazine says they were tricked by
On Monday, the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity announced it would investigate a lawsuit against Rolling Stone.
The Columbia Journalism Review concludes the core reporting problem was confirmation bias.
Americans have the power to prove we’re not children by punishing the storytellers, and forcing our profit-conscious bosses to start dispensing actual journalism again. Don’t stop with the media, either – there’s a huge zero-accountability storytelling government out there in need of reform.
On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, co-host Willie Geist questioned the reaction of Rolling Stone magazine’s management to a Columbia Journalism Review “autopsy” of its November 2014 story of a University of Virginia rape allegation against a fraternity that may
Of course no one was or will be fired at “Rolling Stone” in the wake of the left-wing outlet’s colossal debacle in misreporting a gang rape that almost certainly didn’t happen at the University of Virginia. When you’re an activist
On Sunday night, Rolling Stone magazine published a report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism detailing the many failures of its University of Virginia rape story.
In the blow-up that has followed the Rolling Stone story about “Jackie,” a student at UVA who claimed she had been gang-raped, Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana allowed that the mistake resulted from “individual failure” and “procedural failure, an institutional failure… Every single person at every level of this thing had opportunities to pull the strings a little harder, to question things a little more deeply, and that was not done.”
As the reports on Rolling Stone’s journalistic fiasco make clear, author Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone’s editors failed to do the right—and professionally appropriate thing—time after time. Had they done anything akin to due diligence, the now-retracted mess of a story would never have seen the light of day, let alone have been enshrined in print.
On Easter evening, Rolling Stone published the results of a long investigation into its blockbuster story of a gang rape on the campus of a major American university that was supposedly a fraternity initiation ritual.
The magazine fully retracts the original story, while CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that Rolling Stone’s publisher will not punish any employees involved in its publication.
Charlottesville police announced the results of their investigation into an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house in 2012. Police say they have no proof the incident occurred and note that the woman who made the accusation has refused to cooperate.
Charlottesville, Virginia police said Monday they had no evidence of the occurrence of a gang rape of a University of Virginia student that was described in detail in Rolling Stone last November.