Season Two

Men’s Journal ditches a deep dive into the Air Force Academy’s flimsy rape case against Lt. Douglas Meester.

An ambitious reporter goes door to door with Mormon elders, gets negged by New York Magazine.

A Vanity Fair takedown of a prominent fashion figure…gets taken down.

A double kill! Travel & Leisure and Playboy sink stories on a secretive cruiseliner for the megarich.

Rolling Stone scraps an essay about rock legend Phil Spector’s death.

In over 30 years at Vogue, Anna Wintour has killed many stories. This is not one of them.

ELLE rejects Justine’s profile on “porn moms,” women who love gay porn stars.

Glamour punts a “problematic” 1950s love story.

The Aspen Times buries reporting on a mysterious, Soviet-born billionaire.

A Pulitzer prize reporter accuses the Los Angeles Times of delaying his exposé on a dangerous doctor.