BND - Meghan Markle addresses child pornography allegations against her father

🗞️ Story file #868

Meghan Markle addresses child pornography allegations against her father

Oct 23, 7 AM ET to Oct 24, 4 AM ET

20outlets carried it
🫏10 · 4 · 6🐘left · center · right
21 hourson the front pages
20front pages at once, at its peak
10 minof TV captions

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Oct 23, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
Oct 23, 7 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
Oct 23, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 23, 7 AM to Oct 24, 4 AM ET (peak 20), 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: “deeply distressed” 7 “deeply distressing” “disturbing allegations” “sick lies”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 abuse material

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Meghan Markle 'deeply distressed' amid report her father is under investigation” → “Meghan Markle speaks on allegations against father”
BBC (2 wordings): “Meghan says she was informed about 'disturbing allegations' against her father in 2018” → “Meghan statement offers answers after years of questions about her relationship with father”
CNN (2 wordings): “Meghan ‘deeply distressed’ over child sex abuse image allegations against her estranged father” → “Meghan ‘deeply distressed’ over child sex abuse image allegations against father”
New York Post (9 wordings): “Meghan Markle revealed that 2018 child porn allegations against her father, Thomas Markle Sr., caused her to cut ties to protect her family.” → “Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s behavior toward Thomas Markle Sr. under fresh scrutiny amid child porn allegations”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Philippines investigates Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, after child sexual abuse images claims” → “Philippines investigates Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, after child sexual abuse images claims - Reuters”
The Independent (3 wordings): “Meghan ‘deeply distressed’ by indecent image allegations against father Thomas Markle” → “Meghan’s father Thomas Markle under investigation in Philippines”
The Sun (3 wordings): “MEG DAD CHILD SEX PROBE Meghan's dad Thomas Markle probed over vast stash of child sex images after being reported to cops by his own son” → “MET WERE TOLD Letter warning Met Meghan's dad was child abuser DOES exist, Sun can reveal”

Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating