🧵 Saga file #70
Australian lawmaker car attack
Oct 19, 6 AM ET to Oct 22, 4 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 20outlets carried a part
- 🫏9 · 4 · 7🐘left · center · right
- 3.4 daysrunning so far
- 62 minof TV captions
- 5radio newscasts
- 17people 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.
- Oct 20, 12 PM ET · on the front pages 1 hourAttacker identified after car rammed MP
- Oct 21, 6 AM ET · on the front pages 12 hoursAustralian lawmaker critically injured in car attack
- Oct 19, 6 AM ET · on the front pages 3.4 daysAustralian lawmaker loses both legs in alleged car attack
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Attacker identified after car rammed MP
Oct 20, 12 PM ET · 2 outlets · on the front pages 1 hour
“'ATTACKER REVEALED' 'Attacker who rammed MP with car is identified' as she fights for life” first: The Sun
2. Australian lawmaker critically injured in car attack
Oct 21, 6 AM ET · 5 outlets · on the front pages 12 hours
“Terrorism Squad to Probe Car Attack That Critically Injured Australian Lawmaker” first: The Epoch Times
3. Australian lawmaker loses both legs in alleged car attack
Oct 19, 6 AM ET · 20 outlets · on the front pages 3.4 days
“Australian Lawmaker Critically Injured In Car Attack, Police Say” first: HuffPost, New York Post
📺 BBC News 62 min · 📻 5 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 17
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
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🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Australian lawmaker Helen Haines lost both legs after being intentionally rammed by a car in a suspected act of political violence. told by 17 people, on “Australian lawmaker loses both legs in alleged car attack”