Monday, December 2, 2019

The Death of Jeffrey Epstein in the News

Jeffery Epstein, convicted sex offender and American financer, was rumored to have killed himself on August 10th while imprisoned. This strikes up a lot of controversies about whether or not he killed himself or was killed by someone hired to do so. He held a lot of unknown information on the Trump and Clinton families, which they would not want getting out. Also, the guards that were supposedly watching him every half hour for suicide, lied and did not actually go into his cell.
I looked at two different articles on this case, from The New York Times and Business Insider. Neither articles had frequent or any use of overused metaphors or phrases that Orwell describes as meaningless. But, The New York Times article was quite vague on which point of view they stood with, which may weaken their article. The writer described the events that happened the night of his death as if they were conspiracy side, but that was never clearly stated. Business Insider shows what their point is and backs it up with the evidence that they have. But, the writer still did not conclude that their point was the only view because of the evidence, which will strengthen their article. Still, neither news articles display a decay or language, because all of their words show direct facts, and cannot be debated. Although, in the Business Insider article, your view may be differed by how you define evidence. What the writer views as evidence may immediately swing you to one point of view, but you also may see that as having no correlation at all. So, while they did not use any overused words, some words can have different meanings to others.
Image result for jeffrey epsteinhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-death.html https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-death-clinton-trump-2019-8

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