defending trump. you re also one of the first, may be the first reporter, n to note that the story in rolling stone was clearly a hoax and you work among the first to say that this story was more complicate it and it seemed. what did you do that other reporters didn trt do? i didn t do anything other reporters couldn t have done. looked much more closely and much more elaborately at the facts. what i think caused so many people to miss the real y story in both of these cases is that when you are reporting something that confirms all of your biases, like all of your worst kind of thoughts about some bad person you re talking about, you have to be really sure. you have to consider evidence that conflicts with that. there is a special burden to go above and beyond to make sure that you are not just seeing what you want to see. in rolling stone, the author wanted to see the very, very worst a in campus and have this outrageous story about sexual abuse and it completely fell apart. i thin