BND - Trump pardons two Alaskan mechanics in Clean Air Act case

🗞️ Story file #442

Trump pardons two Alaskan mechanics in Clean Air Act case

Oct 13, 11 PM ET to Oct 15, 10 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

15outlets carried it
🫏3 · 2 · 9🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
4 of 4parts of a saga

👣 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.

Oct 13, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: USA Today
Oct 14, 5 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 11 PM to Oct 15, 10 PM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire Google News

💬 quoted: “As Clean as a New-Born Baby's A$$” “I Love Doing This Stuff” “wrongfully charged”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 diesel mechanics 🐘 biden admin 🐘 clean air

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (3 wordings): “Trump Pardons 2 Men At Alaska Rally Who Pleaded Guilty To Violating Clean Air Act” → “Trump Pardons Men On Stage At A Rally”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Pardons Alaska Mechanics in Clean Air Act Case” → “Trump Pardons Alaska Mechanics in Clean Air Case”
Red State (3 wordings): “'I Love Doing This Stuff': Trump Pardons Two Alaska Mechanics Hounded by the Biden Administration” → “Donald Trump 'I Love Doing This Stuff': Trump Pardons Two Alaska Mechanics Hounded by the Biden Administration Bob Hoge”

Every outlet's first headline (15), left to right by AllSides rating