🗞️ Story file #120
School book bans reach record high of nearly 12,000
Oct 5, 6 PM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1 dayon the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 6 minof TV captions
👣 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, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
- Oct 5, 6 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 6, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
NBC News
Stephen King is the most banned author as school book removals hit record high Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Straight Arrow News
Book bans in US schools hit record high of nearly 12,000, PEN America says Oct 5, 1 PM ET
The Hill
School book bans hit record high with nearly 12,000 removals, study finds Oct 5, 4 PM ET
The Washington Times
Book bans hit record near 12,000 as Stephen King tops list again and schools turn to AI Oct 5, 9 AM ET
Newsmax
PEN America: Nearly 12,000 Cases of School Book Bans Oct 5, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Jane Eyre banned from some US schools BBC News, 3 min
- US schools ban a record 12,000 books BBC News, 3 min
🧶 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: PEN America Stephen King
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.