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🗞️ Story file #258

Cornell university investigates alleged rape allegations

Oct 8, 6 PM ET to Oct 8, 7 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 8, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: PBS NewsHour
  2. Oct 8, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
  3. Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 6 PM to Oct 8, 7 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 86 AM12 PM6 PMNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 7, 12:00 PM ET: New Cornell footage shows frat bros telling investigators alleged gang rape was between ‘consenting adults’ABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 7, 9:00 PM ET: Cornell police pressed frat members on how they knew alleged sex was 'consensual' "The general rumor that was going around was that it was a consensual thing."News NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 8, 12:00 AM ET: Cornell rape case 'a lot more complex' than people think: GeragosThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 8, 4:00 AM ET: Here’s what connects the Cornell alleged rape case to those before: accused men not being held to serious accountCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 8, 1:00 PM ET: These documents tell the story of the Cornell rape allegationsPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: What the Cornell case reveals about how sexual assault allegations are handled📺 TVMSNOW, 6:04 PM ET: UNPOPULAR TV CAMERAS COVER EMPTY SEATS AT TIMSNOW, 6:05 PM ET: UNPOPULAR TV CAMERAS COVER EMPTY SEATS AT TI
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: “a lot more complex” “consenting adults” “The general rumor that was going around was that it was a consensual thing.”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

MSNOW56 s
  • UNPOPULAR TV CAMERAS COVER EMPTY SEATS AT TI MSNOW, 56 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Ruthless 📺 Timcast IRL 📺 Ben Shapiro 🎙️ Morning Wire

🧶 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: Cornell University Geragos Frat members

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧵 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. NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case

    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

    Oct 6, 8 AM ET

  7. Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration

    Oct 6, 10 AM ET

  8. Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

  9. Cornell student seeks removal of New York AG as special prosecutor

    Oct 8, 11 AM ET

  10. Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting

    Oct 8, 6 PM ET

  11. Cornell university investigates alleged rape allegations (this story)

    Oct 8, 6 PM ET

  12. Cornell accuser describes alleged 2024 gang rape incident

    Oct 9, 11 AM ET