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🗞️ Story file #272

Georgia senators debate in Senate race

Oct 9, 7 AM ET to Oct 9, 7 AM 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 9, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
  2. Oct 9, 7 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  3. Oct 9, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 92 AM4 AM6 AMNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 8, 10:05 PM ET: Key Moments From the Georgia Senate Debate Beween Ossoff and CollinsWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 8, 11:05 PM ET: Five takeaways from blistering Georgia Senate debate between Ossoff and CollinsNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 9, 7:00 AM ET: Mike Collins fends off claims he’s a ‘bigot,’ slams ‘trust fund kid’ Jon Ossoff in Georgia Senate debate📺 TVCNN, 7:08 AM ET: GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DEFENDS PERSONAL TIES, DENOUNCES RACISM. Rep. Mike Collins | (R) Georgia Senate CandidateCNN, 7:08 AM ET: GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DEFENDS PERSONAL TIES, DENOUNCES RACISMCNN, 7:37 AM ET: OSSOFF QUESTIONS COLLINS' TIES TO WHITE NATIONALIST INFLUENCERCNN, 7:37 AM ET: GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DEFENDS PERSONAL TIES, DENOUNCES RACISM. Rep. Mike Collins | (R) Georgia Senate CandidateCNN, 7:37 AM ET: GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DEFENDS PERSONAL TIES, DENOUNCES RACISMCNN, 7:39 AM ET: SEN. OSSOFF: COLLINS WOULD BE "GRABBING A BILLY CLUB" FOR JOHN LEWIS
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.

💬 quoted: “bigot,” “trust fund kid”

Every outlet's first headline (3), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN76 s
  • GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DEFENDS PERSONAL TIES, DENOUNCES RACISM. Rep. Mike Collins | (R) Georgia Senate Candidate CNN, 23 s
  • GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DEFENDS PERSONAL TIES, DENOUNCES RACISM CNN, 23 s
  • SEN. OSSOFF: COLLINS WOULD BE "GRABBING A BILLY CLUB" FOR JOHN LEWIS CNN, 19 s
  • OSSOFF QUESTIONS COLLINS' TIES TO WHITE NATIONALIST INFLUENCER CNN, 11 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📨 Erick Erickson

🧶 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: Jon Ossoff Mike Collins Georgia Senate

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ossoff vs. Collins Senate Debate

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    Oct 9, 7 AM ET

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    Oct 9, 10 PM ET

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