police recovered a gun less than 0.02 percent of the time.
Here, the author is trying to bring in some statistics to prove the fact that stop and frisks are not that useful. Not only does this show the negatives to stop and frisk but it also appeals to the authors audience of people who disagree with the act and think that it is un useful.
12 years of data from New York City suggest stop-and-frisk wasn’t that effective
The title itself can already give away that this news source and presenting a little bit of bias towards the negatives about stop and frisk policy.
Jackie Rowe-Adams argues that if police had been using stop and frisk tactics, her sons would still be alive today.
Here, Fox News is using the victims emotions to appeal towards the stop and frisk policy. Fox News is advocating a little more on the side of the pros of stop and frisk rather than the cons. This shows that Fox News is trying to appeal to the audiences that think that stop and frisk is a good thing.
"In my heart I really feel my kids would still be alive. I want to be clear. When you say 'unconstitutional,' we want 'stop and frisk' to be done correctly," she said, arguing that in Harlem "our kids are killing each other" with guns on a daily basis.
Here you can see that fox news is using this quote to show that african americans can be advocates of the stop and frisk policy as well. By doing this it makes it seem that the policy appeals to not only white people but also blacks.
Because at the time I was convinced that I would be going to jail for a long time if he turned me in for drug dealing, especially to high school kids.
http://norml.org/laws/item/federal-penalties-2
Here is a list of how long you can go to jail for for selling pot. To me i'd be a little more worried about the time I would be spending for helping with a murder rather than my drug dealing if I was Jay.
Because at the time I was convinced that I would be going to jail for a long time if he turned me in for drug dealing, especially to high school kids.
This just seems odd to me because in my mind I would be a little more worried about helping with a murder than selling pot. His comment here seems a little backwards to me. This kind of diminishes his ethos in my opinion because to me(and i'm sure Koenig) it seems very suspicious that the reason you helped with a murder was so that you didn't get caught with weed. All Jay had to do was call the cops but he didn't because of the weed? He has even said in an episode of Serial that he wasn't selling too much weed. All of this just doesn't seem like enough stuff to stop me from calling the cops and avoiding all the trouble in the first place.
I saw her body later, in front of of my grandmother’s house where I was living.
I also noticed that this was inconsistent with what Jay had said in the past. I don't think that Sarah is necessarily biased towards Adnan, but she is just more skeptical of Jay for good reasons. He said he saw the body in the Best Buy parking lot but now it is in front of her grandmothers house. In my opinion I think Sarah has good reasons for not trusting Jay. I also don't think she is depicting him wrongly because if anyone had been told that many different stories then they too wouldn't trust someone. So in the end I believe that Jay kind of brought the questions towards him on himself.
Marijuana's Mainstream Move Triggers Different Kinds Of Family Talks
I was drawn to this article by the word marijuana in the title. Being from Colorado and living here for most of my life i would not be surprised if I had an unconscious bias towards the positives of marijuana use. Marijuana in Colorado is a very popular thing and not uncommon to see people smoking in public. Marijuana was also a topic that my parents had informed me on early unlike the 20 year old Jake Olson. If I could look into marijuana more I would just like to know the dangers and if it's really as bad as lots of people make it out to be.
49ers' Colin Kaepernick: 'I'll continue to sit' for national anthem
According to the survey that we took a couple days ago, I might have a slight unconcious bias towards white people rather than black people. I think that his motives for doing this are completely fine, but I just find it very disrespectful to not stand for the anthem because not everyone in the US is oppressing black people. In the end its his right but I just happen to think its disrespectful at the same time.
Poll shows Trump edging ahead of Clinton amid tightening race
The reason I choose this article was because for the first time we have a male and a female candidate and since I am male I could potentially have an unconscious bias towards Donald Trump. The thing that drew me to the article was that Trump is now slightly leading Hillary. I found this interesting becasue Hillary has been in the lead for a little while.
t was one of those big map books you buy at a gas station, police found it in the backseat of Hae’s car. On the back cover was a partial print of Adnan’s left palm. One page was ripped out from the map.
http://s20.photobucket.com/user/Cham101/media/Leakin%20Park/BodyMap53Bodies3small.jpg.html
Here is a map of Leakin Park and all the bodies ever found there. This map is similar to the one that was missing from the book found in Hae's car.
They’re gonna come talk to me. What am I supposed to say?” And I remember him sounding very worried--concerned. This was--whatever was happening was not good on the other line. I remember being like, “wow, I wonder what he’s going--” eavesdropping basically! Wondering what was going on. Not too long after he hung up the phone, he left. Just bust out the door, left.
Up to this point in Serial Sarah has used a certain tone in her evidence towards Adnan that gives her audience a certain type of forgiveness towards him. In this episode though she chooses to completely turn the tables and name everything that could possibly be going against Adnan. By doing this she effected my emotional state towards Adnan almost immediately. When I started to read the evidence that Cathy is giving, my point of view towards Adnan completely changed, which is what Koenig's purpose was in including this evidence in Serial. She wanted readers to know her claim in this episode, which was that there is something big that Adnan is hiding from the case. The fact that he was almost in a panic state when he was on the phone the same night that Hae went missing starts to make me wonder why he was so worried and if he was worried because he had just killed Hae. Not only does Sarah use the strategy of pathos in this evidence but she also uses ethos. I find Cathy's evidence very convincing because not only did she talk to Sarah, but she was also interviewed by the police. The fact that Sarah included her interview with police into this episode makes Cathy's claim very credible.
Come trial, when Jay’s on the stand talking about where they went that day, this whole trip to Patapsco, it never happens. It’s just not there. That talk they have? Instead it happens in Adnan’s car, when they’re tooling around, looking to buy weed. This is a puzzle to me. It’s such a vivid scene, Jay’s describing, it’s so detailed. I have to think he included it for good reason.
This detail seemed very important to me as well. Although it was just to go smoke weed and didn't really have anything to do with the physical murder, they were still talking about some pretty dark things. Something tells me that maybe Adnan said more stuff , but Jay either "doesn't remember" or theres more to the story.
Then, we get out of our car, and walk over to where we think the payphone was. According to a sketch Jay made for the cops. There’s no phone booth there now.I just wantto pause here and talk about this phone booth for a minute. Weirdly, we have not been able to confirm it’s existence. The Best Buy employees I talked to did not remember a payphone back then. We spoke to the landlord at the time and to the property manager, they had no record of a payphone.
I also think this is a great example of Koenig showing a little bias towards Adnan, and at the same time she is also making claims against Jay that are in the end hurting his credibility and trust in this case. The evidence that she used to hurt Jays credibility comes from a very credible source of the employees who remember no phone booth there. Koenig's use of the facts is very effective in her writing because she is using them to back up her claim that she might be making, which is that Jay might be a little untrustworthy when it comes to this case.
Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway
I thought this was very interesting because its almost unbelievable how many reindeer died in one lighting strike. I think that the intended audience was just your every day reader because although this is a sad but crazy occurrence it doesn't effect anyone negatively. My question is just how much lighting does it take to kill that many deer? 323 sounds like an extravagant number for just a lightning strike. Overall I thought the author did a good job of conveying the story and also hooking the reader.
Cocaine with a street value of up to 50 million euros (£42m) has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France.
This article caught my eye merely from the title of the article "Cocaine 'worth 50 million euros discovered at Coca-Cola plant". I found this interesting because I had heard about cocaine being used in the old Coca-Cola drinks. This article brings up lots of questions such as, "who is responsible for getting the drug shipped to the company?" and also "Is the company really involved considering the employees are already ruled out?"
Pennsylvania woman abducted by husband found dead in barn, police say
I choose to pick this article because the story sounded very similar to that of the Serial podcasts we have been listening to. As I read further into it though it doesn't seem to be as complicated as Adnan's case in Serial. Not only was this a well written article, but it also hooked me at the very beginning with the title. In the end I would have liked to know a little bit more about what this mans motive was for trying to kidnap this girl multiple times in months.
Because I talk to Adnan regularly, and he just doesn't seem like a murderer
Here is a link to an article I found regarding how Adnan is being granted a new trial. Throughout the article you can see pictures of the younger and older Adnan. To me neither of these people look like murderers which is why I agree with Sarah when she makes her point of how he doesn't seem like a murderer. In the end though just like how you cant base a case off of just memory, you unfortunately cannot base it off of looks either.
This is a taped interview of Jay, black male, 19 years of age. We're at the offices of Homicide, specifically the colonel's conference room.
I thought that the best piece of evidence that Sarah could have used were the real recordings from the interviews from suspects Jay and then later on Adnan. This added a lot of credibility to the podcasts themselves because the police are going to get as many answers as possible during those interviews, and by putting those into the podcast we can hear all of the same details that the police were which leaves us with a better understanding of the story, and how the author is coming up with all of these details.
How’d you get to work last Wednesday, for instance? Drive? Walk? Bike? Was it raining? Are you sure? Did you go to any stores that day? If so, what did you buy? Who did you talk to? The entire day, name every person you talked to. It’s hard.
I think what Sarah Koenig was trying to do by saying this was not only to show that our memories might not be as reliable as we thought, but also to show that this is a huge part of the entire case. Adnan seems to remember only a slim part of the details where as Jay has the entire story remembered from back to front. To me this seems a little backwards, but at the same time I can understand it because it is hard to remember things from just earlier this week much less months ago. I think her larger point is that the police should not rely completly on the memory of these people because it has been proven with Sarah's nephew that some days we just cannot remember what exactly happened.
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