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🗞️ Story file #1749

Former NFL coach rex Ryan charged with hit-and-run involving pedestrians

Nov 11, 2 PM ET to Nov 12, 7 AM ET

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👣 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. Nov 11, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
  2. Nov 11, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Nov 11, 8 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word

The Epoch Times

💬 Quoted

  1. “running over pedestrians”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)

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • ABC News (2 wordings): “Former NFL coach Rex Ryan arrested” → “Rex Ryan surrenders in alleged hit-and-run that injured 2 pedestrians: Police”
  • AP (3 wordings): “Former NFL coach Rex Ryan turns himself in after alleged Nashville hit-and-run” → “Former NFL coach Rex Ryan turns himself in after allegedly hitting Nashville pedestrians - AP News”
  • NBC News (2 wordings): “Rex Ryan charged after allegedly running over feet of two pedestrians with truck” → “Former New York Jets coach Rex Ryan charged with running over feet of two pedestrians with truck”
  • New York Post (5 wordings): “Ex-Jets coach Rex Ryan arrested for allegedly running over pedestrians’ feet in heated scene — years after fetish scandal” → “Toe jammed Ex-Jets coach Rex Ryan arrested for allegedly running over pedestrians’ feet — years after fetish scandal”
  • The Post Millennial (2 wordings): “Ex-NFL coach Rex Ryan arrested for hitting pedestrians with car in downtown Nashville” → “Ex-NFL coach Rex Ryan arrested for hitting pedestrians with car in downtown Nashville, running over their feet”
  • The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Former NFL head coach Rex Ryan accused of hitting pedestrians with truck in Nashville” → “Former NFL coach Rex Ryan accused of running over Nashville pedestrians' feet”
📰 Every outlet's headline 21left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🐘 Fox News 2 min

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to 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

Rex RyanNashvilleESPNNashville Police

🔎 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.