🗞️ Story file #156
U.S. trade deficit widens in August
Oct 6, 2 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 5 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
👣 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 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
- Oct 6, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Record imports push US trade balance deep into the red in August” → “US trade balance sinks deeper into the red as imports hit record high despite tariffs”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
CNBC
Trade deficit hits $105.6 billion, widest since just before Trump tariffs enacted last year Oct 6, 2 PM ET
New York Times
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens in August Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Bloomberg
US Trade Gap Widens to $105.6 Billion as Imports Hit Record Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Reuters
Record imports push US trade balance deep into the red in August Oct 6, 12 PM ET
The Epoch Times
US Trade Deficit Widens in August on Record Imports Oct 6, 2 PM ET
Newsmax
US Trade Deficit Widens Amid Strong Imports Oct 6, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about 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.
🔎 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.