BND - U.S. inflation rises to 3.7% in September

🗞️ Story file #456

U.S. inflation rises to 3.7% in September

Oct 14, 9 AM ET to Oct 16, 11 AM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

32outlets carried it
🫏13 · 10 · 7🐘left · center · right
2.1 dayson the front pages
32front pages at once, at its peak
93 minof TV captions
17radio newscasts

👣 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 14, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 14, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 14, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 14, 10 PM ETpeak: on 32 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 9 AM to Oct 16, 11 AM ET (peak 32), 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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire Drudge Report

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 four years 🐘 6 3

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Inflation climbs in September as gas prices surge” → “Related: Inflation climbs in September as gas prices surge”
BBC (2 wordings): “US inflation rises more than expected ahead of midterm elections” → “US inflation rises more than expected - here's what is happening with prices”
CNN (4 wordings): “Breaking News Inflation rose faster than expected in last look at consumer prices before midterms” → “Breaking News Wholesale inflation jumped last month as war-driven energy prices surged ahead of the midterms”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Inflation Worsened Last Month To 3.7% In Sign That Prices Remain High As Midterms Near” → “GULP: INFLATION SURGE AHEAD OF MIDTERMS”
NBC News (4 wordings): “Inflation jumps to 3.7% as gas and diesel prices squeeze consumers ahead of the midterms” → “Gas and diesel prices squeeze consumers as inflation jumps to 3.7%”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Higher Energy Prices Pushed U.S. Inflation Up to 3.7% Ahead of Midterm Elections” → “Soaring Energy Prices Push Inflation Higher”
Punchbowl News (2 wordings): “Inflation anvil continues to hang around GOP’s necks premium Finance + Economy” → “Inflation anvil continues to hang around GOP’s necks”
Red State (2 wordings): “Inflation Ticks Higher As Rising Gas Prices Squeeze Americans Ahead of Midterms Teri Christoph” → “Inflation Ticks Higher As Rising Gas Prices Squeeze Americans Ahead of Midterms”
Reuters (5 wordings): “High gasoline prices expected to boost US consumer inflation in September” → “Diesel's surge is starting to push other prices around. Here's how”
Straight Arrow News (3 wordings): “Inflation rises in September, crucial pre-election report shows” → “Energy prices drive inflation rate higher as midterm elections approach”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “US inflation rose to 3.7% in September, figures show” → “US inflation rose to 3.7% in September in blow to Republicans before midterms”
The Hill (2 wordings): “Inflation rose to 3.7 percent in September: BLS” → “Inflation rose slightly in September”