🗞️ Story file #794
Atlanta Dream defeat Golden State Valkyries 97-71 to take 2-1 series lead in WNBA Finals
Oct 21, 11 PM ET to Oct 23, 5 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.2 dayson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 10 minof TV captions
- 3 of 6parts of a saga
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AP 
NBC News 
USA Today 
Chicago Tribune 
Fox News 
New York Post
👣 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 21, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Oct 22, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 22, 5 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 Wire copy
2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word
Chicago Tribune, NBC News
💬 Quoted
- “disgraceful”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- AP (2 wordings): “Angel Reese has 30 points, 16 rebounds as Dream beat Valkyries 79-65 to even WNBA Finals at 1-1” → “Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 for a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals”
- Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “WNBA Finals: Angel Reese is determined to lead something special for the Atlanta Dream” → “WNBA Finals: Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 in Game 3 for a 2-1 lead”
- Fox News (2 wordings): “Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries skip national anthem for third straight WNBA Finals game” → “Dream, Valkyries skip anthem for third straight Finals game as WNBA stays silent”
- New York Post (5 wordings): “Back Angel Reese to dominate again in WNBA Finals Game 3” → “Atlanta forward Angel Reese was fired up in the Dream’s 97-71 win over the Valkyries to take a 2-1 series lead in Wednesday’s Game 3 of the WNBA Finals.”
- USA Today (7 wordings): “WNBA Finals: Dream and Valkyries fight for series lead in…” → “Angel Reese, Atlanta Dream defeat Golden State Valkyries…”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating
- The Guardian🕒 Oct 21, 11 PM ET
Reese stars again as Dream thrash Valkyries to seize WNBA finals lead
- AP🕒 Oct 20, 2 AM ET
Angel Reese has 30 points, 16 rebounds as Dream beat Valkyries 79-65 to even WNBA Finals at 1-1
- NBC News🕒 Oct 21, 11 PM ET
Atlanta Dream beat Golden State Valkyries 97-71 to take 2-1 lead in WNBA Finals
- USA Today🕒 Oct 21, 8 PM ET
WNBA Finals: Dream and Valkyries fight for series lead in…
- Chicago Tribune🕒 Oct 21, 8 AM ET
WNBA Finals: Angel Reese is determined to lead something special for the Atlanta Dream
- Fox News🕒 Oct 21, 10 PM ET
Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries skip national anthem for third straight WNBA Finals game
- New York Post🕒 Oct 21, 5 PM ET
Back Angel Reese to dominate again in WNBA Finals Game 3
📡 Broadcast
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📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order
📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.
🧶 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.
Angel ReeseAtlanta DreamGolden State ValkyriesWNBAWNBA Finals
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Valkyries-Dream WNBA Finals
WNBA Finals games 3 and 4 moved to State Farm arena in Atlanta
Oct 12, 6 PM ET
Golden State Valkyries defeat Atlanta Dream in WNBA Finals opener
Oct 17, 9 PM ET
Atlanta Dream defeat Golden State Valkyries 97-71 to take 2-1 series lead in WNBA Finals (this story)
Oct 21, 11 PM ET
Valkyries beat Dream 67-62 to even WNBA Finals at 2-2
Oct 24, 9 PM ET
WNBA Finals Game 6 moved to Atlanta with new tipoff time
Oct 27, 1 AM ET
Golden State Valkyries win WNBA title in Game 7
Oct 29, 7 PM ET