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🗞️ Story file #1158

Fox News reporter questioned by anti-trump rally attendee

Oct 29, 10 PM ET to Oct 31, 11 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

📰 read it at: HuffPost Raw Story The Daily Beast Mediaite The Independent Crooks and Liars

👣 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.

  1. Oct 29, 10 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  2. Oct 30, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 306 AM12 PM6 PMOct 316 AM36leftnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 10 PM to Oct 31, 11 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · not rated
Oct 2912 PMOct 3012 PMOct 31The Daily BeastThe Daily BeastThe Daily Beast, Oct 28, 11:00 PM ET: Failed MAGA Mouthpiece Glitches as She’s Grilled on TrumpThe Daily Beast, Oct 29, 10:01 PM ET: Fox News Duped by Anti-MAGA Troll at Trump RallyThe Daily Beast, Oct 30, 11:01 PM ET: Trump Drums Up Boos for Fox News in Rally RantMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 29, 2:00 PM ET: Fake Trump Supporter Infiltrates Fox News Broadcast in Wild Live Hit at SC Rally: ‘Nothing Like Seeing a Cult Right Up Front!’Mediaite, Oct 29, 10:01 PM ET: Anti-MAGA Guy in Viral Fox News Hit Explains Rally Incident: ‘I Have Hated Donald Trump Since 1989’Raw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 29, 2:00 PM ET: 'Wait!' Trump rally compared to 'Jonestown Massacre' in epic live troll of Fox NewsRaw Story, Oct 30, 10:01 AM ET: Trump hater reveals what happened after he pranked Fox News with viral 'cult' slamCrooks and LiarsCrooks and LiarsCrooks and Liars, Oct 29, 3:01 PM ET: Oopsie! Fox News Gets Punked By Trump RallygoerThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 29, 3:01 PM ET: Trump rally attendee trolls Fox News reporter in South CarolinaThe Independent, Oct 29, 6:00 PM ET: Anti-Trumper trolls Fox News and says he wanted to see ‘cult’ in person at South Carolina rallyHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 29, 7:00 PM ET: Fox News Mistakes Trump Rallygoer For A MAGA Fan — And The Result Is Live TV MagicHuffPost, Oct 30, 9:01 AM ET: Anti-Trumper In Viral Fox News Moment Reveals What Pushed Him ‘Over The Edge’📺 TVFox News, 6:01 AM ET: "DECOY DAN" INVESTIGATIONMSNOW, 7:01 AM ET: SC rally attendee compares Trump supportersMSNOW, 12:16 AM ET: VANCE CRACKS JOKE AFTER VOTER'S AFFORDABILITY QUESTION
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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “cult”1
  2. “I Have Hated Donald Trump Since 1989”1
  3. “Over The Edge”1
  4. “Nothing Like Seeing a Cult Right Up Front!”2
  5. “Jonestown Massacre”1
  6. “Wait!”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • HuffPost (2 wordings): “Fox News Mistakes Trump Rallygoer For A MAGA Fan — And The Result Is Live TV Magic” → “Anti-Trumper In Viral Fox News Moment Reveals What Pushed Him ‘Over The Edge’”
  • Mediaite (2 wordings): “Fake Trump Supporter Infiltrates Fox News Broadcast in Wild Live Hit at SC Rally: ‘Nothing Like Seeing a Cult Right Up Front!’” → “Anti-MAGA Guy in Viral Fox News Hit Explains Rally Incident: ‘I Have Hated Donald Trump Since 1989’”
  • Raw Story (2 wordings): “'Wait!' Trump rally compared to 'Jonestown Massacre' in epic live troll of Fox News” → “Trump hater reveals what happened after he pranked Fox News with viral 'cult' slam”
  • The Daily Beast (3 wordings): “Failed MAGA Mouthpiece Glitches as She’s Grilled on Trump” → “Trump Drums Up Boos for Fox News in Rally Rant”
  • The Independent (2 wordings): “Trump rally attendee trolls Fox News reporter in South Carolina” → “Anti-Trumper trolls Fox News and says he wanted to see ‘cult’ in person at South Carolina rally”
📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🫏 MSNOW 53 s
  2. 🐘 Fox News 23 s

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🎙️ On the shows

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

  1. ⚖️ Bloomberg News Now 2
  2. 🫏 The Majority Report 2
  3. 🫏 Adam Mockler 2
  4. 🫏 David Pakman Show 2
  5. 🫏 The Young Turks 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Fox NewsDonald TrumpMAGAJonestownTrump Rallygoer

🔎 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.

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