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www.pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org
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Harris supporters are respondents who said they would vote for Kamala Harris, the Democrat, if the 2024 presidential election were held today, or those who said they would not vote for any of the candidates but lean toward Harris. Trump supporters are respondents who said they would vote for Donald Trump, the Republican, if the 2024 presidential election were held today, or those who said they would not vote for any of the candidates but lean toward Trump.
Things to consider: How were questions worded?
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Trump and Harris Supporters Differ on Mass Deportations but Favor Border Security, High-Skilled Immigration
Election Poll: Who are you gonna vote for?
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These findings come from a bilingual, nationally representative survey of 9,201 adults –
Things to consider: How many people were interviewed?
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- Oct 2024
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www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
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For days now, the former president has been stoking claims of electoral fraud in the key swing state.
The metaphor here is "stoking". In a literal sense "to stoke" means add coal or other substances to fuel a fire. This means that Trump has been fueling the fire and rumors that there has been electoral fraud in Pennsylvania. This is a submerged metaphor.
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October 31, 2024
The news values presented in this article are timeliness, prominence, and impact. This is timeliness as the article was just published today. This displays prominence as Trump is a celebrity and huge social figure in America. This is impact as well, as this may affect the polls in the upcoming election.
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Crying
This is a phrasal metaphor. The term "crying" implies that there is some sort of need for a change or difference to appease oneself.
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Crying
Crying is the metaphor from this Rolling Stone article. Crying entails emotions of sadness or anger. In this scenario, "crying" implies a protest, demands, and displaying annoyance.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The Menendez brothers have attracted enormous support on social media, where young people who were not born at the time of the murders have demanded their release.
Even Kim Kardashian has come to defend the brothers, influencing her followers to advocate for them too. This case has also been in lots of young people's media, especially through TikTok.
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“If Lyle and Erik’s case were heard today, with the understanding we now have about abuse and PTSD there is no doubt in my mind that their sentencing would have been very different,”
This signifies that the American mindset has developed greatly over the past couple of decades and is more understanding.
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“It’s important to recognize that both men and women can be victims of sexual abuse,”
I think this has become very relevant today. Even recently with the Abercrombie CEO sex trafficking scandal, people often tend to believe only women are victims of sexual abuse which is just completely false.
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A spending spree by the brothers in the months between the murders and their arrest, in which they bought a Porsche car, a Rolex watch, and a restaurant in Princeton, N.J., was presented as evidence to support that theory.
All this detail was explicitly shown in the Netflix series.
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Erik Menendez was 18, and his brother, Lyle, was 21, at the time of the murders.
These brothers being young and conventionally attractive displayed a different side of America; a side that supports murderers because of their good looks and interesting background.
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The brothers’ initial trial in the early 1990s was one of the first to be televised to a national audience, a forerunner of the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson, also in Los Angeles County.
Both of these cases are engraved in the nations mind. Many people can look back at when these cases first began and describe in detail what happened. People love the drama, with case being wealthy, white men, and from Hollywood all eyes all over America were on a television screen. Furthermore, these cases being televised and becoming so popular signifies that the nation is obsessed with murder, drama, and sexual appeal.
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The case drew renewed attention this year after Netflix released a docudrama about it, and later a documentary in which the brothers discussed the case at length in prison interviews.
Both of these shows that aired on Netflix got huge media attention, and caused an uproar on social media, often with people defending the two brothers. Many people even took to social media to call for a retrial to show their support and love to the brothers.
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At the time, their claims were met with widespread skepticism, but now they are seen by Mr. Gascón as credible enough to warrant reconsideration by the court.
Times are very different now compared to how they were in the 1980s. Sex crimes and offenses were often overlooked and doubted highly in the courts. Now, with the rise of these cases the criminal justice system handles these cases very seriously due to how common these crimes have unfortunately become.
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Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents in 1989
It is important to note that this case has had an unprecedented amount of attention since it first came about. People feel very strongly about this case, and the brothers have thousands upon thousands of supporters.
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Oct. 24, 2024
Timeliness
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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They described a dynamic in which money and the potential to gain a legitimate job were used as leverage to get them to perform sex acts at events and at Jeffries' then-home in the Hamptons.
This signifies control. People simply looking for job prospects and opportunities were being played like chess pieces for the pleasure of these high-power men.
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"I say to all victims: We're here, we will listen, we will investigate and bring charges where appropriate."
I think it is so important for victims to feel comfortable to come forward and to not let their abusers to continue having power over them. I think the public needs to be more accepting to victims of these crimes and not just turn a cold shoulder because the person being accused of the crimes is influential.
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"was using his power, wealth, and influence to traffic men for his own sexual pleasure and that of his sexual partner Matthew Smith."
Similar to Jeffrey Epstein. That case was so important for all the cases following after that, it encouraged victims to speak up and let their voices be heard.
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Former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries is arrested in federal sex trafficking case
Prominence, Timeliness
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but also from seeking assistance for themselves where needed.
This shocks me. These evil men did everything possible to cover their tracks and to intimidate their victims.
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"a full-service security company that oversaw non-disclosure agreements, conducted background checks and surveilled witnesses, among other things."
These NDAs signifies the use of intimidation and sparking fear within people.
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Prosecutors allege that Jeffries and Smith "spent millions of dollars to create a massive infrastructure" around "sex events."
I feel like these sorts of cases continue to come out more and more. The Hollywood industry, which I would assume these men were apart of, does a terrible job at protecting vulnerable people who are looking to make social connections. Rather, people in high power continually take advantage of innocent people.
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who allegedly recruited victims
Were these victims also people who worked under him? The party setting also reminds me of the huge case revolving around P. Diddy at the moment.
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His arrest comes one year after bombshell allegations emerged in which eight men accused Jeffries and his inner circle of sexually exploiting them at lavish parties around the world.
This seems very similar to the Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo Movement. People see an incredibly wealthy and influential man who does not use his power for good, rather he abuses it.
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