BND - NFL reviewing incidents involving officials and players

🗞️ Story file #105

NFL reviewing incidents involving officials and players

Oct 5, 2 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

16outlets carried it
🫏5 · 2 · 9🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
16front pages at once, at its peak
43 sof TV captions
10people retold it online

👣 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 5, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Los Angeles Times
Oct 5, 7 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 10 people
Oct 6, 1 PM ETpeak: on 16 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 2 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 16), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Excessive” “severity” “Unprofessional Conduct” “Unacceptable” “F*ck You” “unprofessional conduct” 2

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 nfl flags officials 🐘 profane flare-ups 🐘 weekend marked

✏️ 9 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (3 wordings): “NFL says it is looking into an official cursing at Cardinals tight end Trey McBride” → “NFL suspends an official 2 games for swearing at Arizona tight end Trey McBride”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “NFL Reviewing Incident Where Ref Snapped at Vikings’ LB Adrian Hill” → “NFL Suspends Two Refs for ‘Unprofessional Conduct’ After Player Confrontations”
Fox News (2 wordings): “NFL reviewing incident after line judge Jeff Seeman appeared to hurl profanity at Cardinals' Trey McBride” → “Rare referee bans jolt pro football after sideline antics make the league look weak”
Los Angeles Times (3 wordings): “NFL is reviewing two incidents involving officials, including one who appeared to curse at player” → “‘Excessive’ suspensions of two NFL officials to be challenged by referees union”
NBC News (4 wordings): “NFL reviewing incident between Vikings’ Eric Wilson and ref Adrian Hill” → “NFL Referees Association objects to ‘severity’ of suspensions of two officials”
New York Post (7 wordings): “The line judge appeared to curse at him after the Cardinals player was arguing his case on a call.” → “NFL refs push back against suspensions after heated Week 4 scenes”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “League looking into line judge appearing to curse out Cardinals’ McBride during game” → “League suspends line judge for swearing at Cardinals’ McBride during game”
The Washington Times (2 wordings): “NFL suspends official two games for swearing at McBride” → “NFL flags officials, suspending 2 after outbursts during a weekend marked by profane flare-ups”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Why These NFL Officials Got Suspended” → “NFL Why These NFL Officials Got Suspended Matt Vespa”