BND - Actor Tom Skerritt, known for 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' dies at 93

🗞️ Story file #835

Actor Tom Skerritt, known for 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' dies at 93

Oct 22, 4 PM ET to Oct 23, 4 AM ET

23outlets carried it
🫏12 · 4 · 7🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
23front 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 22, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Rolling Stone
Oct 22, 6 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 23, 1 AM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 4 PM to Oct 23, 4 AM ET (peak 23), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Alien” 13 “Top Gun” 13 “Picket Fences,” 8 “M*A*S*H” “Steel Magnolias” 2

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 picket fences

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (3 wordings): “US actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in Picket Fences, Mash and Alien, dies aged 93” → “US actor Tom Skerritt, star of Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Alien, dies aged 93”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Tom Skerritt, ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Steel Magnolias’ actor, dead at 93” → “‘Top Gun’ and ‘Steel Magnolias’ actor dead at 93”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Tom Skerritt, Who Had Key Roles in ‘M*A*S*H,’ ‘Alien’ and ‘Steel Magnolias,’ Has Died” → “Tom Skerritt, Who Had Key Roles in ‘Picket Fences’ and ‘Top Gun,’ Dies at 93”
Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “Obituary Tom Skerritt, ‘Alien’ and ‘Picket Fences’ Actor, Dead at 93” → “Tom Skerritt, ‘Alien’ and ‘M*A*S*H’ Star, Dies at 93 3 hours ago”

Every outlet's first headline (23), left to right by AllSides rating