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🗞️ Story file #137

Defense attorney calls for NY AG to recuse from Cornell investigation

Oct 6, 8 AM ET to Oct 6, 4 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 6, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Magazine
  2. Oct 6, 10 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 8 AM to Oct 6, 4 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 5, 12 PM6 PMOct 66 AM12 PMFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 4, 11:00 PM ET: Attorney for accused Cornell student calls on Letitia James to step aside over prior commentsNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 5, 1:00 PM ET: Lawyer for ‘Cornell 7’ defendant calls for AG James to step down from probe after Facebook post sparks ‘impartiality’ questionsNew York Post, Oct 5, 4:00 PM ET: NY AG should ‘voluntarily recuse herself’ from ‘Cornell 7’ rape investigation over biased statements: lawyerWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: Lawyer for student named in Cornell case calls for James to step downCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 5, 10:00 PM ET: Defense attorney says Letitia James should recuse herself from Cornell probeNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 5, 11:00 PM ET: Accused Cornell Frat Brother's Atty: James Should RecuseNew York MagazineNew York MagazineNew York Magazine, Oct 6, 8:00 AM ET: Why Letitia James Is the Wrong Choice for Cornell CaseNew York Magazine, Oct 6, 9:00 AM ET: Why Letitia James Is the Wrong Choice for Cornell Case The DA had to go, but Kathy Hochul mishandled the next part.BBCBBCBBC, Oct 6, 10:00 AM ET: Defence lawyer in Cornell University case calls for special prosecutor to be removedBBC, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Lawyer for one of Cornell 7 calls for special prosecutor to be removed over previous commentsThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Letitia James not qualified to lead independent investigation on Cornell 7
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “Cornell 7” “impartiality” “voluntarily recuse herself”

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • BBC (2 wordings): “Defence lawyer in Cornell University case calls for special prosecutor to be removed” → “Lawyer for one of Cornell 7 calls for special prosecutor to be removed over previous comments”
  • New York Magazine (2 wordings): “Why Letitia James Is the Wrong Choice for Cornell Case” → “Why Letitia James Is the Wrong Choice for Cornell Case The DA had to go, but Kathy Hochul mishandled the next part.”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Lawyer for ‘Cornell 7’ defendant calls for AG James to step down from probe after Facebook post sparks ‘impartiality’ questions” → “NY AG should ‘voluntarily recuse herself’ from ‘Cornell 7’ rape investigation over biased statements: lawyer”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Letitia James Cornell University Cornell 7 Attorney for accused Cornell student

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Cornell sexual assault scandal

  1. New York governor appoints Attorney General as special prosecutor in Cornell rape case

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  2. Cornell university faces scrutiny over rape allegations and investigation

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  3. Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape investigation

    Oct 3, 12 PM ET

  4. District attorney declined to review additional evidence in Cornell rape case

    Oct 3, 2 PM ET

  5. Woman in Cornell rape case faces threats, lawyer says

    Oct 5, 11 AM ET

  6. Defense attorney calls for NY AG to recuse from Cornell investigation (this story)

    Oct 6, 8 AM ET

  7. Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration

    Oct 6, 10 AM ET

  8. Cornell names former deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

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