🗞️ Story file #1595
Texas senator-elect appears in snl cold open
Nov 8, 8 AM ET to Nov 8, 10 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 13 of 13parts of a saga
📰 read it at:
HuffPost 
Los Angeles Times 
Mediaite 
NBC News 
Newsweek 
IJR 
New York Post
👣 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.
- Nov 8, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Nov 8, 8 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “SNL”4
- “Ass Man”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “James Talarico crashes ‘SNL’ cold open days after turning Texas blue” → “Lone star James Talarico crashes ‘SNL’ cold open days after turning Texas blue”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 8, 8 AM ET
James Talarico Flips The Script On Trump In Surprise 'SNL' Cameo
- Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 8, 2 AM ET
James Talarico, the new senator-elect of Texas, has a message for Trump in ‘SNL’ cold open
- Mediaite🕒 Nov 8, 1 AM ET
James Talarico Crashes Saturday Night Live Cold Open, Vows to Work Together With ‘Ass Man’ Trump
- NBC News🕒 Nov 8, 5 AM ET
James Talarico kicks off ‘SNL’ days after historic Texas Senate win
- Newsweek🕒 Nov 8, 2 AM ET
James Talarico Debuts on SNL After Texas Midterm Victory
- IJR🕒 Nov 8, 3 AM ET
Texas Sen.-elect Talarico Makes Surprise SNL Cold Open Appearance
- New York Post🕒 Nov 8, 1 AM ET
James Talarico crashes ‘SNL’ cold open days after turning Texas blue
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- left
🎙️ On the shows
podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation
🕵️ Investigated, joked about
🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces
🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
🧶 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.
James TalaricoSaturday Night LiveTexasDonald Trump
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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Texas senator-elect appears in snl cold open (this story)
Nov 8, 8 AM ET