🧵 Saga file #33
Fort Hood execution debate
Oct 5, 9 PM ET to Oct 11, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 3parts so far
- 61outlets carried a part
- 🫏25 · 13 · 21🐘left · center · right
- 5.9 daysrunning so far
- 166 minof TV captions
- 14radio newscasts
- 112people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 5, 9 PM ET · on the front pages 5.9 daysPentagon plans to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution
- Oct 11, 4 PM ET · on the front pages 2 hoursTrump to decide on livestreaming Fort Hood shooter's execution
- Oct 11, 4 PM ET · on the front pages 2 hoursU.S. plans to livestream execution By firing squad draw bipartisan and international criticism
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Pentagon plans to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution
Oct 5, 9 PM ET · 58 outlets · on the front pages 5.9 days · 🔴 now
“Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad” first: ABC News, Just the News, New York Post, News Nation, Red State, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Washington Examiner
📺 BBC News 95 min, CNN 47 min, Fox News 22 min, MSNOW 3 min · 📻 14 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 112
2. Trump to decide on livestreaming Fort Hood shooter's execution
Oct 11, 4 PM ET · 18 outlets · on the front pages 2 hours · 🔴 now
“Trump on planned public execution of Fort Hood shooter: ‘He deserves it’ … ‘maniac’” first: One America News Network
3. U.S. plans to livestream execution By firing squad draw bipartisan and international criticism
Oct 11, 4 PM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 2 hours · 🔴 now
“U.S. plan to livestream execution by firing squad draws bipartisan, international outrage” first: Los Angeles Times
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- The Pentagon plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan. told by 89 people, on “Pentagon plans to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution”
🧩 The new dark ages - President Donald Trump approved the firing squad execution of Army Major Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. told by 23 people, on “Pentagon plans to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution”
🧩 Cruel and unusual