🗞️ Story file #461
Georgia senators debate in heated Senate race
Oct 14, 10 AM ET to Oct 14, 7 PM ET
📰 8 outlets carried it ⚖️ 🫏3 · 2 · 3🐘 left · center · right ⏱️ 9 hours on the front pages 📈 8 front pages at once, at its peak 📺 27 min of TV captions 🧵 4 of 4 parts of a saga
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📰 Spread the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
Oct 14, 12 PM 2 PM 4 PM 6 PM 4 8 left center right Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 10 AM to Oct 14, 7 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean:
Oct 13, 6 PM Oct 14 6 AM 12 PM 6 PM NewsweekNewsweek Newsweek, Oct 13, 4:02 PM ET: Jon Ossoff vs. Mike Collins: Latest Polls and Odds Ahead of Georgia Debate The Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit The Gateway Pundit, Oct 13, 11:02 PM ET: WHOA! Republican Mike Collins Drops a Jeffrey Epstein Sized BOMB on Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia Senate Debate (VIDEO) New York TimesNew York Times New York Times, Oct 13, 11:02 PM ET: 7 Takeaways From the Second Georgia Senate Debate BreitbartBreitbart Breitbart, Oct 14, 12:02 AM ET: Georgia U.S. Senate Debate: Jon Ossoff Signals Support for Trump Impeachment Efforts Breitbart, Oct 14, 1:02 PM ET: …Ossoff Signals Support for Trump Impeachment Efforts… USA TodayUSA Today USA Today, Oct 14, 8:02 AM ET: Ossoff and Collins came out swinging in the Georgia Senate debate PBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour PBS NewsHour, Oct 14, 9:02 AM ET: WATCH: Georgia's Ossoff and Collins face off in Senate debate The Daily SignalThe Daily Signal The Daily Signal, Oct 14, 10:02 AM ET: Collins and Ossoff Face Off in Heated Debate: Take Two The HillThe Hill The Hill, Oct 14, 4:02 PM ET: Ossoff, Collins clash in second Georgia Senate debate: 4 takeaways 📺 TV Fox News, 10:45 AM ET: J. TUREK, HINSON BRAWL IN HEATED IOWA DEBATE Fox News, 10:45 AM ET: TUREK, HINSON TRADE JABS IN IOWA SENATE DEBATE Fox News, 10:46 AM ET: TUREK, HINSON TRADE JABS IN IOWA SENATE DEBATE CNN, 1:02 PM ET: TWO NEW POLLS SHOW TEXAS SENATE RACE DEADLOCKED CNN, 1:05 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:06 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:06 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:08 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:09 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:10 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:41 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:41 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:42 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:42 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:43 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:43 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:44 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:45 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:45 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:45 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:46 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:46 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 1:47 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 3:05 PM ET: CLASH OF THE CANDIDATES: SECOND SENATE DEBATE IN GA GETS HEATED CNN, 3:05 PM ET: CLASH OF THE CANDIDATES: SECOND SENATE DEBATE IN GA GETS HEATED CNN, 3:06 PM ET: CLASH OF THE CANDIDATES: SECOND SENATE DEBATE IN GA GETS HEATED CNN, 3:07 PM ET: CLASH OF THE CANDIDATES: SECOND SENATE DEBATE IN GA GETS HEATED CNN, 3:07 PM ET: CLASH OF THE CANDIDATES: SECOND SENATE DEBATE IN GA GETS HEATED CNN, 3:10 PM ET: EPSTEIN FILES RAISED AT OSSOFF-COLLINS DEBATE LAST NIGHT CNN, 3:11 PM ET: EPSTEIN FILES RAISED AT OSSOFF-COLLINS DEBATE LAST NIGHT CNN, 4:36 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:37 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:37 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:37 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:38 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:38 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:39 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:39 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:39 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:40 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 4:40 PM ET: GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 6:02 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT TX SENATE RACE BETWEEN TALARICO, PAXTON CNN, 6:02 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT TX SENATE RACE BETWEEN TALARICO, PAXTON CNN, 6:03 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT TX SENATE RACE BETWEEN TALARICO, PAXTON CNN, 6:03 PM ET: NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT TX SENATE RACE BETWEEN TALARICO, PAXTON 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.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Georgia U.S. Senate Debate: Jon Ossoff Signals Support for Trump Impeachment Efforts” → “…Ossoff Signals Support for Trump Impeachment Efforts…”Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
📡 Broadcast TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT RACE BETWEEN PAXTON, TALARICO IN TX CNN, 12 min GEORGIA SENATE CANDIDATES CLASH OVER EPSTEIN FILES IN DEBATE CNN, 8 min NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT TX SENATE RACE BETWEEN TALARICO, PAXTON CNN, 3 min CLASH OF THE CANDIDATES: SECOND SENATE DEBATE IN GA GETS HEATED CNN, 2 min EPSTEIN FILES RAISED AT OSSOFF-COLLINS DEBATE LAST NIGHT CNN, 79 s TWO NEW POLLS SHOW TEXAS SENATE RACE DEADLOCKED CNN, 34 s TUREK, HINSON TRADE JABS IN IOWA SENATE DEBATE Fox News, 25 s J. TUREK, HINSON BRAWL IN HEATED IOWA DEBATE Fox News, 22 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: Jon Ossoff Mike Collins Georgia Republican Party
🔎 Checking what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence the running story it belongs to
New York Times
7 Takeaways From the Second Georgia Senate Debate Oct 13, 11 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
WATCH: Georgia's Ossoff and Collins face off in Senate debate Oct 14, 9 AM ET
USA Today
Ossoff and Collins came out swinging in the Georgia Senate debate Oct 14, 8 AM ET
Newsweek
Jon Ossoff vs. Mike Collins: Latest Polls and Odds Ahead of Georgia Debate Oct 13, 4 PM ET
The Hill
Ossoff, Collins clash in second Georgia Senate debate: 4 takeaways Oct 14, 4 PM ET
Breitbart
Georgia U.S. Senate Debate: Jon Ossoff Signals Support for Trump Impeachment Efforts Oct 14, 12 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit
WHOA! Republican Mike Collins Drops a Jeffrey Epstein Sized BOMB on Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia Senate Debate (VIDEO) Oct 13, 11 PM ET