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Fracturing Domesticity: Media Analysis

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Fracturing Domesticity: Media, Nationalism, and the Question of Feminist Influence by Wendy Kozol fosters the fundamental question as to why the American National Media is continually rediscovering the problem of domestic violence. This issue has been present in new stories since the 1970s, however it lacks the ongoing coverage merited by the continuing threat of domestic violence in households across the United States. The source analyzes the media event of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994 which drew short-lived attention to the prevalence of wife abuse as an attempt to contextualize the crime. The media hype surrounding this murder became a commentary on the changing of American ideals rather than a narrative regarding the pertinent
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