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🗞️ Story file #387

Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies at 34

Oct 12, 6 PM ET to Oct 12, 10 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, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
  2. Oct 12, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Oct 12, 9 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 6 PM to Oct 12, 10 PM ET (peak 14), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 12, 6 PM7 PM8 PM9 PM10 PMRolling StoneRolling StoneRolling Stone, Oct 12, 5:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' Star Who Played Walt Jr., Dead at 34Rolling Stone, Oct 12, 10:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' Star, Dies at 34CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 12, 5:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at age 34CBS News, Oct 12, 8:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at 34The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 12, 5:02 PM ET: Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s son on ‘Breaking Bad,’ is dead at 34Los Angeles Times, Oct 12, 9:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor who played Walter White’s son, is dead at 34News NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, star of 'Breaking Bad', dead at 34: ReportThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad role, dies aged 34Scripps NewsScripps NewsScripps News, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: Obituaries 'Breaking Bad' actor RJ Mitte dies at age 34 Scripps News GroupBBCBBCBBC, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies aged 34NewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: Actor Who Played Walter White's Son on 'Breaking Bad' Dies at 34HuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 12, 7:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, Who Played Walter White Jr. On ‘Breaking Bad,’ Dies At 34OANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Oct 12, 7:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34New York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 12, 7:02 PM ET: RJ Mitte, Who Played Walter White’s Son on ‘Breaking Bad,’ Dies at 34TownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 12, 8:02 PM ET: Breaking Bad Star RJ Mitte Dies at 34Townhall, Oct 12, 9:02 PM ET: Breaking Bad Star RJ Mitte Dies at 34 Joe ChalfantReutersReutersReuters, Oct 12, 9:02 PM ET: 'Breaking Bad' actor and disability rights activist RJ Mitte dead at 34📺 TVBBC News, 6:28 PM ET: ''Breaking Bad' actor RJ Mitte dies aged 34
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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Breaking Bad” 10

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 dies aged 34

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • CBS News (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at age 34” → “RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at 34”
  • Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s son on ‘Breaking Bad,’ is dead at 34” → “RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor who played Walter White’s son, is dead at 34”
  • Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' Star Who Played Walt Jr., Dead at 34” → “RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' Star, Dies at 34”
  • Townhall (2 wordings): “Breaking Bad Star RJ Mitte Dies at 34” → “Breaking Bad Star RJ Mitte Dies at 34 Joe Chalfant”
Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News26 s
  • ''Breaking Bad' actor RJ Mitte dies aged 34 BBC News, 26 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: RJ Mitte Breaking Bad

🔎 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.