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🗞️ Story file #380

Former fox News executive criticizes network's handling of Kimberly Guilfoyle coverage; network later publishes article about her potential firing by Trump

Oct 12, 3 PM ET to Oct 13, 10 AM ET

👣 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 12, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 12, 3 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 12, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 12, 6 PM9 PMOct 133 AM6 AM9 AM36left
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 3 PM to Oct 13, 10 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left
Oct 126 AM12 PM6 PMOct 136 AMRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 11, 7:02 PM ET: Ex-Fox News boss blasts network's latest 'product of fear' as scandal rocks Trump adminThe Daily BeastThe Daily BeastThe Daily Beast, Oct 12, 6:02 AM ET: Fox Veteran Shames Network for ‘Malpractice’ Over GuilfoyleMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 12, 8:02 AM ET: Ex-Fox News Host Says Network’s Kimberly Guilfoyle ‘Omission’ Is ‘Coming From the Top’Rolling StoneRolling StoneRolling Stone, Oct 12, 11:02 AM ET: Former Fox News Exec Slams Network for ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ Over ‘Choice to Ignore’ Kimberly Guilfoyle Scandal in Online Coverage — Then Hours Later Site Published Story About How She Might Be Fired by Trump 2 hours agoThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 12, 1:02 PM ET: Ex-Fox News producer says network is afraid to cover the Kimberly Guilfoyle scandalHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 12, 3:02 PM ET: Ex-Fox News Exec Issues Scathing Complaint About Outlet's Kimberly Guilfoyle Coverage📺 TVFox News, 6:16 PM ET: THIN ICE? REPORT: TRUMP AND RUBIO WEIGH FIRING GUILFOYLEMSNOW, 6:37 PM ET: GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED VMSNOW, 6:39 PM ET: TOP GOP SENATOR CALLS FOR GUILFOYLEMSNOW, 6:39 PM ET: GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED VMSNOW, 6:40 PM ET: TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QUMSNOW, 6:41 PM ET: TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QUMSNOW, 6:42 PM ET: TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QUMSNOW, 6:42 PM ET: GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED VMSNOW, 7:01 PM ET: THE RIGHT'S TALARICO CONSPIRACY CRUMBLESFox News, 7:35 PM ET: GUILFOYLE DENIES DONOR PAY-TO-PLAY ALLEGATIONSCNN, 1:07 AM ET: STATE DEPT. INSPECTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATING GUILFOYLECNN, 1:08 AM ET: STATE DEPT. INSPECTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATING GUILFOYLEMSNOW, 5:02 AM ET: WILL GUILFOYLE BE FIRED THIS WEEKFox News, 5:05 AM ET: PRESIDENT WEIGHS FIRING KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE AMID MOUNTING MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONSFox News, 5:06 AM ET: AMID MOUNTING MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONSMSNOW, 5:32 AM ET: TRUMP AND RUBIO WEIGH FIRING KIMBERLYCNN, 5:41 AM ET: Source: Inspector General Reviews Guilfoyle AllegationsCNN, 5:42 AM ET: Source: Inspector General Reviews Guilfoyle AllegationsCNN, 5:42 AM ET: Former Trump Donor Alleges Kimberly GuilfoyleCNN, 5:42 AM ET: Former Trump Donor Alleges Kimberly GuilfoyleCNN, 5:43 AM ET: Former Trump Donor Alleges Kimberly GuilfoyleCNN, 5:43 AM ET: Former Trump Donor Alleges Kimberly Guilroy Asked Him To Pay Off Her Credit Card BillFox News, 7:36 AM ET: AP: RUBIO UPSET OVER KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE CLAIMSFox News, 7:37 AM ET: STATE DEPT PROBES GUILFOYLE MISCONDUCT CLAIMSFox News, 7:37 AM ET: AP: RUBIO UPSET OVER KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE CLAIMSCNN, 8:32 AM ET: EX-TRUMP DONOR SAYS HE WILL SUE GUILFOYLE FOR DEFAMATIONCNN, 8:32 AM ET: EX-TRUMP DONOR SAYS HE WILL SUE GUILFOYLE FOR DEFAMATIONCNN, 8:33 AM ET: GUILFOYLE'S LAWYERS: "ASKING A CLIENT TO PAY FOR WORK ALREADY. DONE IS NOT CORRUPTION. IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF CORRUPTION"CNN, 8:33 AM ET: EX-TRUMP DONOR SAYS HE WILL SUE GUILFOYLE FOR DEFAMATIONCNN, 8:35 AM ET: EX-TRUMP DONOR ON GUILFOYLE SCANDAL: "GRIFTING ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL"CNN, 9:05 AM ET: KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS FACES EMPTY PODIUM AS GOP OPPONENT CAMPAIGNSCNN, 9:05 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:06 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:06 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:07 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:07 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:41 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:42 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:42 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:42 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:43 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:44 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:44 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"CNN, 9:44 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY"MSNOW, 10:05 AM ET: NEW PRESS SECY: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGNMSNOW, 10:05 AM ET: NEW PRESS SECY: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGNMSNOW, 10:05 AM ET: NEW PRESS SECY: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGNMSNOW, 10:06 AM ET: NEW PRESS SECY: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGNMSNOW, 10:09 AM ET: NEW PRESS SECY: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGNFox News, 10:10 AM ET: WH PRESS SEC: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGN
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: “Journalistic Malpractice” 2 “Choice to Ignore” “Coming From the Top” “Omission”

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

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN13 min
MSNOW4 min
Fox News3 min
  • TRUMP SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING FIRING GUILFOYLE AND IS "NOT HAPPY" CNN, 6 min
  • EX-TRUMP DONOR SAYS HE WILL SUE GUILFOYLE FOR DEFAMATION CNN, 2 min
  • Former Trump Donor Alleges Kimberly Guilfoyle CNN, 71 s
  • GUILFOYLE UNDER FIRE AS WSJ REVEALS ALLEGED V MSNOW, 67 s
  • TRUMP DONOR ACCUSES "GRIFTER" GUILFOYLE OF "QU MSNOW, 66 s
  • Source: Inspector General Reviews Guilfoyle Allegations CNN, 63 s
  • STATE DEPT. INSPECTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATING GUILFOYLE CNN, 58 s
  • NEW PRESS SECY: WE HAVE ASKED GUILFOYLE TO RESIGN MSNOW, 57 s

🧶 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.

🗣️ names in it: Fox News Kimberly Guilfoyle Trump administration Former Fox News Exec Former Fox News Host Former Fox News boss

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump donor sues Guilfoyle

  1. Ambassador Guilfoyle sought $100K from donor to pay AmEx bill

    Oct 8, 10 AM ET

  2. Former fox News executive criticizes network's handling of Kimberly Guilfoyle coverage; network later publishes article about her potential firing by Trump (this story)

    Oct 12, 3 PM ET

  3. Trump considers firing US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle amid misconduct allegations

    Oct 13, 11 AM ET

  4. Trump donor vows to sue Kimberly Guilfoyle over payment dispute

    Oct 13, 2 PM ET

  5. Former US ambassador to Greece resigns after corruption allegations

    Oct 16, 11 AM ET

  6. Trump donor files defamation lawsuit against Guilfoyle

    Oct 11, 7 PM ET

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