BND - Trump's Reflecting Pool Focus

🧵 Saga file #125

Trump's Reflecting Pool Focus

Nov 1, 11 PM ET to Nov 4, 1 AM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now

2parts so far
88outlets carried a part
🫏41 · 17 · 24🐘left · center · right
2.1 daysrunning so far
204 minof TV captions
34radio newscasts
107people retold it online

🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.

each part on the front pages, hour by hour

Front pages carrying each part at each hourly run, Nov 1, 11 PM to Nov 4, 1 AM ET (peak 100), stacked by part: 1 · 2

Its parts in the order of their latest news, each from when we first saw it on a front page to when we last did; beneath, the TV captions, radio newscasts and retellings, each in the color of the part it was about. Hover for details.

in the order of their latest news, each in its color on the charts; the bar is the outlets that carried it. 🔴 on the front pages now, 📄 a page of its own, 🗄️ older than a week

the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index: each day its most-told, wider for more tellers, colored by genre (✨ new to the saga that day)

Archetypesa kind of person
Plotswhat happened
Beliefsa premise
Theorieswhat people think is behind it
Argumentsa move in an argument

Tue Nov 3 ✨ Lampooning the leader 1 ✨ Empty seats 1 ✨ Ozymandias 1 ✨ Fiddling while Rome burns 1

what people online made of it, part by part

Trump's closing midterm speech touted his Reflecting Pool renovation, mocked as a vanity project before a tiny crowd. told by 107 people, on “US voters cast ballots in midterm elections”

Trump's Reflecting Pool Focus

📰 Spread

🧩 The parts

🧩 How it's been told

🧶 Retelling