Australian lawmaker critically injured in car attack

🗞️ Story file #744

Australian lawmaker critically injured in car attack

Oct 21, 6 AM ET to Oct 21, 6 PM ET

5outlets carried it
🫏4 · 0 · 1🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
2 of 3parts of a saga

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Oct 21, 6 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 21, 6 AM to Oct 21, 6 PM ET (peak 5), by the outlets' lean: left · right

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: “intentional” “targeted” 2

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

NBC News (2 wordings): “Suspect in vehicle attack on Australian lawmaker appears in court as police investigate motive” → “Australian lawmaker loses both legs in vehicle attack as suspect appears in court”

Every outlet's first headline (5), left to right by AllSides rating