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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #583

Pope Leo calls Putin, urges ceasefire during lung surgery recovery

Oct 17, 12 AM ET to Oct 18, 9 AM ET

πŸ‘£ 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 17, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
  2. Oct 17, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  3. Oct 17, 8 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 17, 6 AM12 PM6 PMOct 186 AM47leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 17, 12 AM to Oct 18, 9 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 1712 PMOct 18APAPAP, Oct 16, 2:00 PM ET: Pope speaks with Putin, denouncing recent attacks as he shows recovery from lung surgery progressingNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 16, 2:00 PM ET: Pope Leo Calls Putin, Urges Ukraine Humanitarian TruceNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 16, 3:00 PM ET: Pope Asks Putin for a Cease-Fire for a Ukrainian City Under SiegeFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 16, 8:00 PM ET: Recovering from lung surgery, Pope Leo urges Putin to agree to ceasefire in Russian-held Ukraine cityIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 16, 10:00 PM ET: Pope Leo Urges Oleshky Truce in Putin CallNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 17, 12:00 AM ET: Pope Leo XIV calls Putin, urges ceasefire as he recovers from lung surgeryNew York Post, Oct 17, 4:00 AM ET: Pope Leo XIV calls Putin, urges cease-fire as he recovers from lung surgeryNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 17, 8:01 AM ET: Pope Leo Makes Direct Appeal to Putin From HospitalπŸ“Ί TVCNN, 1:24 AM ET: POPE LEO AND PUTIN DISCUSS HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN UKRAINECNN, 1:25 AM ET: POPE LEO AND PUTIN DISCUSS HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN UKRAINEBBC News, 3:31 AM ET: Pope Leo surgeryCNN, 5:22 AM ET: POPE LEO'S CALL WITH PUTINCNN, 5:23 AM ET: POPE LEO'S CALL WITH PUTINCNN, 5:28 AM ET: POPE LEO SPEAKS WITH PUTIN FOLLOWING CANCER SURGERYCNN, 5:29 AM ET: POPE LEO SPEAKS WITH PUTIN FOLLOWING CANCER SURGERY
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)
  • New York Post (2 wordings): β€œPope Leo XIV calls Putin, urges ceasefire as he recovers from lung surgery” β†’ β€œPope Leo XIV calls Putin, urges cease-fire as he recovers from lung surgery”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

πŸ“Ί On TV

CNN4 min
BBC News3 s
  • POPE LEO SPEAKS WITH PUTIN FOLLOWING CANCER SURGERY CNN, 86 s
  • POPE LEO AND PUTIN DISCUSS HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN UKRAINE CNN, 84 s
  • POPE LEO'S CALL WITH PUTIN CNN, 55 s
  • Pope Leo surgery BBC News, 3 s

🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

πŸ¦— Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: Pope Leo Russia Ukraine Putin Oleshky

πŸ”Ž Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧡 Pope Leo cancer update

  1. Pope Leo XIV undergoes successful lung nodule surgery

    Oct 11, 7 AM ET

  2. Pope Leo calls Putin, urges ceasefire during lung surgery recovery (this story)

    Oct 17, 12 AM ET

  3. Pope Leo makes first public appearance since cancer surgery

    Oct 13, 5 PM ET

  4. Pope Leo's doctors say no further cancer treatment needed

    Oct 21, 4 PM ET