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🗞️ Story file #39

District attorney declined to review additional evidence in Cornell rape case

Oct 3, 2 PM ET to Oct 3, 6 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 3, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Google News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 2, 6 PMOct 36 AM12 PM6 PMReutersReutersReuters, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: NY governor attacks law enforcement's handling of 2024 Cornell rape investigationBBCBBCBBC, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: Watch: New York governor blasts handling of Cornell rape inquiryVoxVoxVox, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: Cornell police and the local prosecutor handled the allegationsThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 2, 5:42 PM ET: Governor slams district attorney, Cornell police on handling of rape allegationsNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 3, 8:38 AM ET: D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional EvidenceNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 3, 1:00 PM ET: DA did not review statements and other evidence collected in alleged rape of Cornell studentThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 3, 2:00 PM ET: DA in Cornell rape investigation declined to review some evidence, including interviewsThe Independent, Oct 3, 3:00 PM ET: DA in Cornell rape investigation declined to review some evidence, including interviews: reportGoogle NewsGoogle NewsGoogle News, Oct 3, 2:00 PM ET: D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence - The New York TimesGoogle News, Oct 3, 3:00 PM ET: D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence - nytimes.com
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.
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Google News (2 wordings): “D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence - The New York Times” → “D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence - nytimes.com”
  • The Independent (2 wordings): “DA in Cornell rape investigation declined to review some evidence, including interviews” → “DA in Cornell rape investigation declined to review some evidence, including interviews: report”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 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: New York State Cornell University New York governor New York Times Alleged rape of 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 (this story)

    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 names former deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

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