Cornell case puts New York’s progressive image at odds with its rape laws

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the coverage around the Cornell case as a test of New York’s sexual-assault laws and politics. Al Jazeera focuses on lawmakers reviewing those laws, including the voluntary intoxication rule, while PBS NewsHour instead leads with Gov. Kathy Hochul naming Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. The PBS extract also uniquely foregrounds Hochul’s criticism of how Cornell police and the county prosecutor handled the case.

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