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🗞️ Story file #380

Former fox News executive criticizes network's handling of Kimberly Guilfoyle coverage; network later publishes article about her potential removal from Trump administration

Oct 12, 3 PM ET to Oct 12, 11 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 12, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 12, 3 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 12, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 12, 4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM36left
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 3 PM to Oct 12, 11 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left
Oct 126 AM12 PM6 PMRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 11, 7:02 PM ET: Ex-Fox News boss blasts network's latest 'product of fear' as scandal rocks Trump adminThe Daily BeastThe Daily BeastThe Daily Beast, Oct 12, 6:02 AM ET: Fox Veteran Shames Network for ‘Malpractice’ Over GuilfoyleMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 12, 8:02 AM ET: Ex-Fox News Host Says Network’s Kimberly Guilfoyle ‘Omission’ Is ‘Coming From the Top’Rolling StoneRolling StoneRolling Stone, Oct 12, 11:02 AM ET: Former Fox News Exec Slams Network for ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ Over ‘Choice to Ignore’ Kimberly Guilfoyle Scandal in Online Coverage — Then Hours Later Site Published Story About How She Might Be Fired by Trump 2 hours agoThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 12, 1:02 PM ET: Ex-Fox News producer says network is afraid to cover the Kimberly Guilfoyle scandalHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 12, 3:02 PM ET: Ex-Fox News Exec Issues Scathing Complaint About Outlet's Kimberly Guilfoyle Coverage📺 TVFox News, 6:16 PM ET: THIN ICE? REPORT: TRUMP AND RUBIO WEIGH FIRING GUILFOYLEMSNOW, 6:37 PM ET: GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED VMSNOW, 6:39 PM ET: TOP GOP SENATOR CALLS FOR GUILFOYLEMSNOW, 6:39 PM ET: GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED VMSNOW, 6:40 PM ET: TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QUMSNOW, 6:41 PM ET: TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QUMSNOW, 6:42 PM ET: TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QUMSNOW, 6:42 PM ET: GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED VMSNOW, 7:01 PM ET: THE RIGHT'S TALARICO CONSPIRACY CRUMBLESFox News, 7:35 PM ET: GUILFOYLE DENIES DONOR PAY-TO-PLAY ALLEGATIONS
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💬 quoted: “Journalistic Malpractice” 2 “Choice to Ignore” “Coming From the Top” “Omission”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

MSNOW3 min
Fox News43 s
  • GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED V MSNOW, 67 s
  • TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QU MSNOW, 66 s
  • TOP GOP SENATOR CALLS FOR GUILFOYLE MSNOW, 24 s
  • GUILFOYLE DENIES DONOR PAY-TO-PLAY ALLEGATIONS Fox News, 22 s
  • THIN ICE? REPORT: TRUMP AND RUBIO WEIGH FIRING GUILFOYLE Fox News, 21 s
  • THE RIGHT'S TALARICO CONSPIRACY CRUMBLES MSNOW, 13 s

🧶 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: Fox News Kimberly Guilfoyle Trump administration Former Fox News Exec Former Fox News Host Former Fox News boss

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Fox Guilfoyle scandal

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    Oct 12, 3 PM ET