🗞️ 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
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 22 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
- 2 of 4parts of a saga
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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.
- Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
- Oct 27, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 27, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
✏️ 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
Alternet🕒 Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Trump arch will shroud iconic DC landmarks in darkness for most of the year
Raw Story🕒 Oct 27, 7 AM ET
Towering shadow from Trump’s arch to plunge graves of America’s veterans into darkness
Mediaite🕒 Oct 27, 2 PM ET
Trump’s Proposed Arch Would Cast Shadow Over Thousands of Graves at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington Post Finds
The Washington Post🕒 Oct 27, 7 AM ET
Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington Cemetery
Newsweek🕒 Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Trump’s Arch Sparks Backlash Over Shadows on Veterans’ Graves
The Washington Sun🕒 Oct 27, 12 PM ET
The Shadow of Trump’s Arch Would Stretch Across D.C. Memorials
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- leans left
📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 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.
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
Construction on Trump's triumphal arch could begin in two weeks
Oct 22, 1 PM ET
Trump's proposed arch would cast shadow over Arlington Cemetery graves (this story)
Oct 27, 2 PM ET
D.C. and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch
Oct 30, 10 PM ET
Nov 5, 2 PM ET