🗞️ Story file #585
Katie Zacharia grilled by Sean Hannity over legal credentials
Oct 17, 11 AM ET to Oct 17, 1 PM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 1fact-check
- 1 of 3parts 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 17, 11 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire
💬 quoted: “lawyer” “pro hit job” “Sanctioned Hit” “Taking her out”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Katie Zacharia’s Disastrous Hannity Interview Held Several Clues For Her Fate Oct 16, 4 PM ET
Raw Story
'Taking her out': Ex-Fox News host says network slapping Katie Zacharia with 'pro hit job' Oct 16, 1 PM ET
Mediaite
Susie Wiles Reportedly Arranged Disastrous Katie Zacharia Interview on Hannity: ‘Sanctioned Hit’ Oct 16, 11 PM ET
The Independent
Katie Zacharia grilled by Fox anchor Sean Hannity over ‘lawyer’ claim Oct 16, 2 PM ET
USA Today
Katie Zacharia gets tough treatment from Trump ally Sean Hannity Oct 16, 12 PM ET
The Hill
Hannity takes Zacharia to task over legal credentials Oct 16, 4 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Katie Zacharia’s rough first week continues, Fox News grills her on her legal acumen Oct 16, 1 PM ET
The Western Journal
Watch: Here's the 'Tough' Hannity Interview That Led to Katie Zacharia's Departure Oct 16, 4 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
🧶 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: Katie Zacharia Fox News Sean Hannity Susie Wiles Hannity
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Katie Zacharia's departure
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Oct 17, 11 AM ET
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