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people and to what they view as a 'liberal' press" had raised questions about the
Dirkhising case. Shipp said, however, that she "made a clear distinction" between the Dirkhising and Shepard cases: "Matthew Shepard's death sparked public expressions of outrage that themselves became news. . . . That
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were not justified because the two cases varied with the
Dirkhising murder offering "no lessons," whereas the Shepard murder "touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's
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magazine editorial, asserted that " was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females and, indeed if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less
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argument. But sex with children is a crime regardless of the sexes involved, and is not synonymous with homosexuality. . . . "The reason the
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recorded 3,007 stories about his death compared with only 46 in the month after the
Dirkhising murder. However, once the media seized on the story, this count rapidly rose into the thousands. Many of the articles justified the lack of coverage, citing that the death did not justify national
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was the only network to cover the murder trial and conviction. The prosecutors "argued that Jesse suffocated to death during the sexual assault because of a combination of the drugs and the way he was trussed up." In March 2001, Brown was found guilty of
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943:"Guilty Plea in Arkansas Rape-Killing"
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977:"Did Media Hide Gay Murder Case?",
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1794:Sullivan, Andrew (April 1, 2001).
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1183:. Retrieved on February 26, 2013.
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1546:"The New Gay Struggle"
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