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🗞️ Story file #1022

Trump's proposed arch would cast shadow over Arlington Cemetery graves

Oct 27, 2 PM ET to Oct 28, 12 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

📰 read it at: Alternet Raw Story Mediaite The Washington Post Newsweek The Washington Sun

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
  2. Oct 27, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 27, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 27, 6 PMOct 286 AM12 PM36leftcenternot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 2 PM to Oct 28, 12 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · not rated
Oct 27, 12 PM6 PMOct 286 AM12 PMThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 27, 7:00 AM ET: Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington CemeteryThe Washington Post, Oct 27, 5:00 PM ET: A shadow over Arlington Cemetery: Trump’s arch would darken JFK’s graveThe Washington Post, Oct 28, 4:00 AM ET: Column | How Trump’s arch could disrupt the solemn nighttime of Arlington CemeteryRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 27, 7:00 AM ET: Towering shadow from Trump’s arch to plunge graves of America’s veterans into darknessNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 27, 12:00 PM ET: Trump’s Arch Sparks Backlash Over Shadows on Veterans’ GravesThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 27, 12:00 PM ET: The Shadow of Trump’s Arch Would Stretch Across D.C. MemorialsAlternetAlternetAlternet, Oct 27, 12:00 PM ET: Trump arch will shroud iconic DC landmarks in darkness for most of the yearMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: Trump’s Proposed Arch Would Cast Shadow Over Thousands of Graves at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington Post Finds📺 TVCNN, 3:59 PM ET: BUILDING FOR TRUMP'S 250-FOOT ARCH COULD BEGIN NEXT WEEKCNN, 3:59 PM ET: DOJ: CONSTRUCTION ON 250-FOOT TRIUMPHAL ARCH COULD BEGIN NEXT WEEKCNN, 4:00 PM ET: DOJ: CONSTRUCTION ON 250-FOOT TRIUMPHAL ARCH COULD BEGIN NEXT WEEK
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • The Washington Post (3 wordings): “Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington Cemetery” → “Column | How Trump’s arch could disrupt the solemn nighttime of Arlington Cemetery”
📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🫏 CNN 2 min

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Donald TrumpArlington National CemeteryWashington PostVeterans' GravesAmerican Veterans

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump's Washington arch

  1. Construction on Trump's triumphal arch could begin in two weeks

    Oct 22, 1 PM ET

  2. Trump's proposed arch would cast shadow over Arlington Cemetery graves (this story)

    Oct 27, 2 PM ET

  3. D.C. and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch

    Oct 30, 10 PM ET

  4. Federal judge blocks construction of Trump's 250-foot arch hours after federal commission approves project

    Nov 5, 2 PM ET