NewsBusters: ‘Time’ Pulls Eliza Berman’s Swipes at Breitbart’s John Nolte

Yesterday at 4:11 p.m. ET, Eugene Volokh at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog sharply criticized Time.com’s Eliza Berman for not being “quite fair” — i.e., being quite unfair, given the author’s penchant for understatement — to Breitbart.com’s John Nolte, the reporter who investigated the veracity of Lena Dunham’s detailed claims about and descriptions of her alleged Oberlin College rapist.

Volokh’s critique was based on language in Berman’s original writeup which Time pulled at some point after Volokh’s post without any notice that it had done so. Berman, as Volokh noted, “casually dismiss(ed) an investigation … that actually succeeded in getting a publisher to correct a statement,” and in the process betrayed fundamental tenets of journalism as it’s supposed to be practiced.

Before getting to the deleted language, let’s look at the flat-out lie contained in Berman’s opening paragraph:

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