🗞️ Story file #570
Judge dismisses child sex abuse charges against Timothy Busfield
Oct 16, 6 PM ET to Oct 17, 6 PM ET
- 17outlets carried it
- 🫏9 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 24 hourson the front pages
- 17front pages at once, at its peak
- 5 minof TV captions
- 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 16, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Rolling Stone
- Oct 16, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 16, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 17, 3 PM ETpeak: on 17 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Timothy Busfield’s child sex abuse charges dismissed by judge” → “Case tossed Timothy Busfield’s child sex abuse charges dismissed by judge”
- Rolling Stone (3 wordings): “Timothy Busfield Indictment on Child Sex Abuse Charges Thrown Out by Judge 3 hours ago” → “Timothy Busfield's Child Sexual Abuse Case Dismissed”
Every outlet's first headline (17), left to right by AllSides rating
Rolling Stone
Timothy Busfield Indictment on Child Sex Abuse Charges Thrown Out by Judge 3 hours ago Oct 16, 6 PM ET
Salon
Actor & Director Timothy Busfield’s charges of sexual abuse of a minor dismissed — sort of Oct 17, 3 PM ET
The Guardian
Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge Oct 17, 12 AM ET
ABC News
Judge tosses indictment against actor Timothy Busfield Oct 16, 6 PM ET
CBS News
Judge dismisses child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield Oct 16, 8 PM ET
Los Angeles Times
Timothy Busfield’s child sex abuse indictment in New Mexico is thrown out by judge Oct 16, 6 PM ET
NBC News
Child sex abuse charges against Timothy Busfield tossed by judge, citing prosecutor misconduct Oct 16, 6 PM ET
The Independent
Charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge over prosecutor misconduct Oct 16, 6 PM ET
USA Today
Timothy Busfield's child sex-abuse case dropped Oct 16, 6 PM ET
BBC
Judge throws out child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield Oct 16, 9 PM ET
Reuters
Judge dismisses indictment of actor Timothy Busfield on child sexual assault Oct 16, 7 PM ET
Just the News
New Mexico judge dismisses child sexual abuse claims against actor Timothy Busfield Oct 16, 7 PM ET
The Epoch Times
Judge Tosses Actor Timothy Busfield’s Criminal Sexual Abuse Charges Oct 17, 12 AM ET
Fox News
Judge tosses Timothy Busfield's indictment on child sex abuse charges Oct 16, 5 PM ET
IJR
Judge dismisses Timothy Busfield indictment citing prosecutor misconduct Oct 16, 7 PM ET
New York Post
Timothy Busfield’s child sex abuse charges dismissed by judge Oct 16, 6 PM ET
Newsmax
N.M. Judge Tosses Charges Against Actor Busfield Oct 17, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- BASEBALL COACH CHARGED IN HANSEN STING Fox News, 77 s
- CREEP: LET ME CALL MY MOM Fox News, 68 s
- WORK-RELEASE INMATE CHARGED IN STING Fox News, 58 s
- ROBERT PATTINSON PLAYS HANSEN IN NEW MOVIE Fox News, 41 s
- CREEP: WAS JUST GETTING SOME AIR Fox News, 37 s
- HANSEN CATCHES INMATE IN UNDERAGE STING Fox News, 31 s
- CREEP: I CAME TO SAY NO Fox News, 15 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 16, 8:10 PM ET: story 4 of 6
🧶 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: Timothy Busfield New Mexico Prosecutor Judge Child Sex Abuse Charges
🔎 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.