🧵 Saga file #57
Katie Zacharia White House exit
Oct 9, 3 PM ET to Oct 20, 11 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 71outlets carried a part
- 🫏33 · 13 · 23🐘left · center · right
- 11.3 daysrunning so far
- 502 minof TV captions
- 11radio newscasts
🧵 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.
- Oct 17, 11 AM ET · on the front pages 2 hoursKatie Zacharia grilled by Sean Hannity over legal credentials
- Oct 18, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 22 hoursKatie Zacharia fired from white House
- Oct 9, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 11.3 daysKatie Zacharia ousted as White House press secretary after 5-day tenure
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Katie Zacharia grilled by Sean Hannity over legal credentials
Oct 17, 11 AM ET · 8 outlets · on the front pages 2 hours
“Katie Zacharia gets tough treatment from Trump ally Sean Hannity” first: USA Today
2. Katie Zacharia fired from white House
Oct 18, 5 PM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 22 hours
“Katie Zacharia was too incompetent even for Trump” first: Salon
3. Katie Zacharia ousted as White House press secretary after 5-day tenure
Oct 9, 3 PM ET · 70 outlets · on the front pages 11.3 days
“Katie Zacharia offered White House press secretary job” first: ABC News, Axios, BBC, Bloomberg, CBS News, Forbes, Fox News, HuffPost, Just the News, Mediaite, NBC News, New York Post, Newsmax, Newsweek, Reuters, The Daily Signal, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Post Millennial, The Sun, The Washington Sun, Time, Townhall, USA Today, Washington Examiner
📺 CNN 344 min, MSNOW 73 min, BBC News 56 min, Fox News 28 min · 📻 11 newscasts
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-18 The impostor ×1
- 2026-10-17 The impostor ×1 ✨ Not up to the task ×1
- 2026-10-15 The impostor ×1
- 2026-10-14 ✨ Lookalike ×1 ✨ Sporus ×1 ✨ The impostor ×1 ✨ Not playing with a full deck ×1 ✨ Hired for her looks ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.