Erika Kirk criticizes Dave Chappelle's joke about husband's murder

🗞️ Story file #1615

Erika Kirk criticizes Dave Chappelle's joke about husband's murder

Nov 9, 12 AM ET to Nov 9, 10 AM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏3 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
9people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

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Nov 9, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
Nov 9, 12 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Nov 9, 5 AM ETretold online by 9 people
Nov 9, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 9, 12 AM to Nov 9, 10 AM ET (peak 6), 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

“Beyond Disgusting”5
“Better”1
“leftist”1
“Beyond disgusting”5

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

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch ‘Beyond Disgusting’ Attacks on Charlie Kirk” → “Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch ‘Beyond Disgusting’ Remarks About Charlie’s Murder”

📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating