🗞️ Story file #1022
Trump's proposed arch would cast shadow over Arlington Cemetery graves
Oct 27, 2 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 16 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
👣 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 27, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
- Oct 27, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 27, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- The Washington Post (3 wordings): “Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington Cemetery” → “Column | How Trump’s arch could disrupt the solemn nighttime of Arlington Cemetery”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
Alternet
Trump arch will shroud iconic DC landmarks in darkness for most of the year Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Raw Story
Towering shadow from Trump’s arch to plunge graves of America’s veterans into darkness Oct 27, 7 AM ET
Mediaite
Trump’s Proposed Arch Would Cast Shadow Over Thousands of Graves at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington Post Finds Oct 27, 2 PM ET
The Washington Post
Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington Cemetery Oct 27, 7 AM ET
Newsweek
Trump’s Arch Sparks Backlash Over Shadows on Veterans’ Graves Oct 27, 12 PM ET
The Washington Sun
The Shadow of Trump’s Arch Would Stretch Across D.C. Memorials Oct 27, 12 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- DOJ: CONSTRUCTION ON 250-FOOT TRIUMPHAL ARCH COULD BEGIN NEXT WEEK CNN, 58 s
- BUILDING FOR TRUMP'S 250-FOOT ARCH COULD BEGIN NEXT WEEK CNN, 39 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Arlington National Cemetery Washington Post Veterans' Graves American Veterans
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.