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title:  "SatiricLR: a language resource of Satirical News Articles"
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**Warning:** this blog post contains spoilers for the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer

### <NAME>'s confession
If you haven't seen the true crime documentary series [Making a Murderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_a_Murderer) yet, go watch it! The Netflix series gives a fascinating -yet disturbing- insight into the  American justice system and how it seems to fail to adhere to the principle of guilty beyond reasonable doubt. 

![confession]

One of the most cringe worthy things we see in the documentary is the confession of Steven's nephew, <NAME>. Brendan is a boy with learning disabilities and is interrogated without any help present by two trained policemen for 6 hours. In this interrogation Brendan confesses helping <NAME> rape and murder <NAME>. It is this confession alone that leads to his conviction for life and it helps in the conviction of <NAME>. We see some  parts of the interrogation in the documentary, such as the part below.

> FASSBENDER: Did he say why he wanted you to do that?

> BRENDAN: No. (shakes head “no”)

> WIEGERT: Which knife did you use?

> BRENDAN: The same one he stabbed her with.<commit_msg>Update 2016-06-02-satiriclr.markdown<commit_after>---
layout: post
title:  "SatiricLR: a language resource of Satirical News Articles"
date:   2016-06-02 23:33:0
description: At LREC I the Satirical Language Resource. A dataset containing a balanced collection of satire and non satire news articles in various domains.
categories:
- blog
permalink: satiriclr
---

**Warning:** this blog post contains spoilers for the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer

### <NAME>'s confession
If you haven't seen the true crime documentary series [Making a Murderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_a_Murderer) yet, go watch it! The Netflix series gives a fascinating -yet disturbing- insight into the  American justice system and how it seems to fail to adhere to the principle of guilty beyond reasonable doubt. 

![confession]

One of the most cringe worthy things we see in the documentary is the confession of Steven's nephew, <NAME>. Brendan is a boy with learning disabilities and is interrogated without any help present by two trained policemen for 6 hours. In this interrogation Brendan confesses helping <NAME> rape and murder <NAME>. It is this confession alone that leads to his conviction for life and it helps in the conviction of <NAME>. We see some  parts of the interrogation in the documentary, such as the part below.

> FASSBENDER: Did he say why he wanted you to do that?

> BRENDAN: No. (shakes head “no”)

> WIEGERT: Which knife did you use?

> BRENDAN: The same one he stabbed her with.
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