🗞️ Story file #1602
Podcast hosts apologize after sponsors leave over reaction to Charlie Kirk joke
Nov 8, 12 PM ET to Nov 9, 10 AM ET
- 11outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 0 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 22 hourson the front pages
- 11front pages at once, at its peak
- 8 minof TV captions
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
📰 read it at:
HuffPost 
Business Insider 
Mediaite 
The Independent 
Yahoo News 
Breitbart 
Fox News 
New York Post 
OAN 
The Gateway Pundit 
Townhall
👣 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 8, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
- Nov 8, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Nov 8, 7 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “insensitive”4
- “I've Had It”2
- “Digging Up Charlie Kirk and Doing It Again”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📰 Every outlet's headline 11left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 7, 5 PM ET
'I've Had It' Podcasters Apologize For Reaction To Charlie Kirk Joke After Backlash
- Business Insider🕒 Nov 8, 4 PM ET
Chewy and other companies pull ads from 'I've Had It' podcast after hosts laugh at 'insensitive' Charlie Kirk joke
- Mediaite🕒 Nov 7, 10 PM ET
Sponsors Ditch Progressive Podcasters Who Cackled at ‘Insensitive’ Charlie Kirk Joke
- The Independent🕒 Nov 8, 12 PM ET
Popular progressive podcast sees sponsors flee after ‘insensitive’ Charlie Kirk joke
- Yahoo News🕒 Nov 8, 7 PM ET
Popular podcast sees sponsors flee after hosts laughed at Charlie Kirk joke
- Breitbart🕒 Nov 8, 11 AM ET
Democrat Podcasters Apologize for Charlie Kirk Joke, Donate to Gun Control Group
- Fox News🕒 Nov 7, 6 PM ET
Liberal podcasters apologize after facing backlash for laughing at Kirk death joke
- New York Post🕒 Nov 8, 5 AM ET
Far-left podcasters apologize after laughing at ‘insensitive’ joke about Charlie Kirk
- OAN🕒 Nov 8, 4 PM ET
Brands pull advertising after liberal podcasters laugh at post about digging up Charlie Kirk's body
- The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 7, 5 PM ET
Leftist Podcaster Jennifer Welch Apologizes For Joke About Desecrating Charlie Kirk’s Corpse… by Donating Money to Anti-Gun Group
- Townhall🕒 Nov 7, 3 PM ET
Advertisers Flee Left Podcasters Who Cracked Up Over ‘Digging Up Charlie Kirk and Doing It Again’
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- center
- right
📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 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
🕵️ 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
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
Charlie KirkLiberal podcastersFar-left podcastersProgressive podcastersSponsorsGun Control Group
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Charlie Kirk joke controversy
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