Jon Stewart criticizes Democratic leadership following midterm election results

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Jon Stewart criticizes Democratic leadership following midterm election results

Nov 6, 2 PM ET to Nov 7, 11 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
21 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
8 minof TV captions
23people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

📰 read it at: Alternet HuffPost The Daily Beast Mediaite The Independent The Hill The Washington Times New York Post

👣 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.

Nov 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Nov 6, 3 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Nov 6, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Nov 7, 4 AM ETretold online by 23 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 6, 2 PM to Nov 7, 11 AM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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

“bulls--t system”2
“Bulls**t System”2
“Bullsh*t System”1

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

📰 Every outlet's headline 8left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet🕒 Nov 5, 6 PM ET Jon Stewart issues a blistering warning to Democrats
HuffPost🕒 Nov 5, 4 PM ET Jon Stewart Says Democrats Must Scrap Its ‘Bulls**t System’ — And Toss This Leader Out With It
The Daily Beast🕒 Nov 5, 2 PM ET Jon Stewart Has Tough Message for Dems After Blowout Victory
Mediaite🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET Jon Stewart Urges Democrats to Toss Chuck Schumer and Other Senior Leaders of ‘Bullsh*t System’
The Independent🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET Jon Stewart issues dire warning about Chuck Schumer after blue wave
The Hill🕒 Nov 6, 3 PM ET Jon Stewart flames Chuck Schumer; Dems must get ready to govern
The Washington Times🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET Jon Stewart calls for Schumer, other senior Dems to leave Congress
New York Post🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Jon Stewart warns against ‘bulls–t system’ ruling Dem party, calls for Schumer to step down after midterms

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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right

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

🐘 Fox News 8 min

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.

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

⚖️ BBC Global News Podcast 1

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

🃏 The Onion 1

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

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🗣️ Names in it

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what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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