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🗞️ Story file #144

Quebec separatist party wins provincial election

Oct 6, 11 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

👣 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 6, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: Washington Examiner
  2. Oct 6, 1 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM48leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 11 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 63 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PMBBCBBCBBC, Oct 5, 11:00 PM ET: Separatist party projected to win Quebec election, adding new test to Canada's unityBBC, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: A separatist party just won power in Quebec - what does that mean?NewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 5, 11:00 PM ET: Quebec Separatist Party That Promises Another Independence Referendum Projected to Win ElectionThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 6, 1:00 AM ET: Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM’s national unity strategyNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 6, 1:00 AM ET: The Separatist Parti Québécois Wins Quebec Election, Reviving Sovereignty PushAPAPAP, Oct 6, 2:00 AM ET: Quebec separatists vowing independence vote win an election but fall short of majorityWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Quebec could see another independence referendum after separatist party’s victoryBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: Quebec Bonds Tighten as Separatist Party Falls Short of MajorityFinancial TimesFinancial TimesFinancial Times, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: Separatist victory in Quebec tests Canada’s united front against US
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.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • BBC (2 wordings): “Separatist party projected to win Quebec election, adding new test to Canada's unity” → “A separatist party just won power in Quebec - what does that mean?”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed 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: Parti Québécois Quebec Canada Separatists Canada PM

🔎 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.