BND - Cornell university investigates alleged rape allegations

🗞️ Story file #258

Cornell university investigates alleged rape allegations

Oct 8, 6 PM ET to Oct 8, 7 PM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏4 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
1 houron the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
56 sof TV captions
2fact-checks
11 of 12parts of a saga

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Oct 8, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: PBS NewsHour
Oct 8, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 6 PM to Oct 8, 7 PM 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. 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: “a lot more complex” “consenting adults” “The general rumor that was going around was that it was a consensual thing.”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating