🗞️ Story file #392
Man dies after falling from Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia
Oct 12, 8 PM ET to Oct 12, 10 PM ET
- 19outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 2 · 9🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 19front pages at once, at its peak
- 1radio newscast
👣 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.
- Oct 12, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 12, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
- Oct 12, 10 PM ETpeak: on 19 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 goliath roller
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (2 wordings): “One dead and several hurt after roller coaster incident at Six Flags” → “One dead and several hurt after rollercoaster incident at Six Flags”
- CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Man dies after falling off roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, police and witnesses say” → “Man dies after falling off roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, police and witnesses say”
Every outlet's first headline (19), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
1 Dead, Several Injured In Roller Coaster Incident At Six Flags Over Georgia Oct 12, 8 PM ET
The Guardian
One dead and more injured after incident on Six Flags rollercoaster in US Oct 12, 8 PM ET
ABC News
1 dead, several injured in roller coaster incident at Six Flags park: Police Oct 12, 8 PM ET
AP
One person is dead, several others injured in incident involving Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia Oct 12, 8 PM ET
CBS News
1 dead in incident on Six Flags Over Georgia roller coaster Oct 12, 7 PM ET
CNN
Breaking News Man dies after falling off roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, police and witnesses say Oct 12, 8 PM ET
USA Today
Man dies after falling off Georgia roller coaster Oct 12, 7 PM ET
Yahoo News
Man dies after falling from Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia Oct 12, 8 PM ET
BBC
One dead and several hurt after roller coaster incident at Six Flags Oct 12, 8 PM ET
Scripps News
U.S. News One dead, several others injured in Six Flags roller coaster incident in Georgia AP via Scripps News Group Oct 12, 8 PM ET
Just the News
Man dies after falling of rollercoaster at Six Flag amusement park in Georgia: police, witnesses Oct 12, 10 PM ET
The Washington Times
Six Flags roller coaster incident leaves one dead, several injured Oct 12, 10 PM ET
Washington Examiner
One dead and several injured after roller coaster incident at Six Flags Over Georgia Oct 12, 9 PM ET
Fox News
WATCH: Man dies after falling from Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia Oct 12, 7 PM ET
IJR
One dead, Six Flags Goliath evacuated Oct 12, 9 PM ET
New York Post
Six Flags parkgoer killed after falling off Goliath roller coaster in Georgia: report Oct 12, 7 PM ET
Newsmax
1 Dead, Several Hurt at Six Flags in Georgia Oct 12, 10 PM ET
The Daily Wire
Six Flags Roller Coaster Horror As Man Plunges To Death, Captured In Souvenir Photo Oct 12, 10 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
HORROR AT SIX FLAGS: Man Allegedly Flung from Seat on Goliath Roller Coaster Dies After Hitting Ride Multiple Times — Victim Captured in Souvenir Photo Oct 12, 9 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📻 On the radio
- ABC News Update, Oct 12, 8:32 PM ET: the lead
🧶 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: Six Flags Over Georgia Six Flags Georgia Police Witnesses
🔎 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.