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work_m65y62ucazb77kd34c3btqp4ni	Brian L. Ott	The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy: Media Framing of the Matthew Shepard Murder	2002	24	.pdf	application/pdf	11588	883	68	How a story is framed in the news affects both how the public assigns responsibility for a traumatic event and "how people following the debate think about policy media's framing of the Matthew Shepard story: naming the event, making a political symbol, expunging the evil within, and restoring the social order. found by a mountain biker, tied to a fence like a scarecrow."15 Local reporters covering the story immediately seized on the anti-gay aspect of the crime and the crucifix symbolism of the scarecrow image—two dramatic elements that quickly drew through victimage) and bringing closure to the story, it also brought a sense of resolution to the debate about gay rights and hate-crimes legislation that Shepard's Having described the news media's framing of the Matthew Shepard story and having analyzed how those frames functioned rhetorically to absolve the public of its	./cache/work_m65y62ucazb77kd34c3btqp4ni.pdf	./txt/work_m65y62ucazb77kd34c3btqp4ni.txt