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🗞️ Story file #414

Metallica frontman criticizes entertainers for pushing political agendas at concerts

Oct 13, 2 PM ET to Oct 15, 12 PM 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 13, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
  2. Oct 13, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Oct 13, 8 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
  4. Oct 15, 4 AM ETretold online by 21 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 1412 PMOct 1512 PM48right
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 2 PM to Oct 15, 12 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: right
Oct 1312 PMOct 1412 PMOct 1512 PMThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 12, 1:02 PM ET: Metallica Frontman Trashes Artists Who Use Platform To Lecture FansThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: “NO MORE POLITICAL BULLS**T!” — Metallica Frontman James Hetfield BLASTS Entertainers Who Use Concerts to Push Their AgendasBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 12, 7:02 PM ET: Watch: Metallica’s James Hetfield Tells Audience We’re ‘Not Here, Like Other Entertainers, to Influence You With Their Bulls**t’Fox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 13, 9:02 AM ET: Metallica frontman James Hetfield blasts entertainers pushing political agendas at concertsFox News, Oct 13, 11:02 AM ET: Metallica frontman unloads on entertainers pushing political agendas during showsThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 13, 1:02 PM ET: James Hetfield says Metallica is not trying ‘influence’ fans like ‘some other entertainers’The Washington Times, Oct 14, 12:02 PM ET: Metallica frontman James Hetfield tells fans at concert he’s not there to ‘push agendas’Red StateRed StateRed State, Oct 13, 2:02 PM ET: Metallica Frontman Slams Leftist Entertainers' Political Rants: 'Not Here to Influence You' Becky NobleRed State, Oct 13, 2:02 PM ET: Metallica Frontman Slams Leftist Entertainers' Political Rants: 'Not Here to Influence You'Red State, Oct 13, 3:02 PM ET: Music Metallica Frontman Slams Leftist Entertainers' Political Rants: 'Not Here to Influence You' Becky NobleNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 13, 2:02 PM ET: Metallica Frontman Slams Entertainers Pushing Political AgendasNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 13, 8:02 PM ET: Metallica frontman slams artists pushing ‘bulls–t’ political agendas at concertsThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 14, 4:02 PM ET: Metallica Frontman Triggers Leftists with Subtle Shot at Zach Bryan, Macklemore, and Jelly Roll📺 TVFox News, 3:12 PM ET: BLAKEMAN SLAMS HARRY STYLES FOR BELGIAN SHOUT OUT🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
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: “bulls--t” “Not Here to Influence You” “push agendas” “Not Here, Like Other Entertainers, to Influence You With Their Bulls**t” 2 “some other entertainers” “NO MORE POLITICAL BULLS**T!”

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Fox News (2 wordings): “Metallica frontman James Hetfield blasts entertainers pushing political agendas at concerts” → “Metallica frontman unloads on entertainers pushing political agendas during shows”
  • Red State (3 wordings): “Metallica Frontman Slams Leftist Entertainers' Political Rants: 'Not Here to Influence You' Becky Noble” → “Music Metallica Frontman Slams Leftist Entertainers' Political Rants: 'Not Here to Influence You' Becky Noble”
  • The Washington Times (2 wordings): “James Hetfield says Metallica is not trying ‘influence’ fans like ‘some other entertainers’” → “Metallica frontman James Hetfield tells fans at concert he’s not there to ‘push agendas’”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News13 s
  • BLAKEMAN SLAMS HARRY STYLES FOR BELGIAN SHOUT OUT Fox News, 13 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Metallica are hypocritical and disappointing because they fought Napster and now claim to avoid politics. Oct 15: told by 21 people

    🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

    🦋 a post on Bluesky · 34 likes, 3 reposts

    🦋 a post on Bluesky · 29 likes, 0 reposts

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: James Hetfield Metallica Becky Noble Leftist entertainers Artists Political agenda

🔎 Checking

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🧵 Persistence

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