Oregon teacher injured in school shooting says she played dead to survive

🗞️ Story file #798

Oregon teacher injured in school shooting says she played dead to survive

Oct 22, 12 AM ET to Oct 23, 1 PM ET

15outlets carried it
🫏9 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
1.5 dayson the front pages
15front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
2 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 22, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
Oct 22, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 22, 12 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 22, 8 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 12 AM to Oct 23, 1 PM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · 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.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word (PBS NewsHour, The Epoch Times)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “but the shooter was already there” “Only thing I could do” “to be dead”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 elementary school

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Teacher injured in elementary school shooting says she played dead after being shot” → “Teacher hurt in Oregon school shooting speaks out”
Fox News (3 wordings): “Injured Bend, Oregon teacher tried to shut classroom door during school shooting before playing dead” → “Oregon teacher recalls encounter with shooter during elementary school rampage”
News Nation (2 wordings): “Teacher wounded in Oregon shooting says she played dead to survive” → “Teacher played dead to survive school shooting: 'Only thing I could do'”
The Sun (4 wordings): “SCHOOL MASSACRE Teacher recalls terrifying moment she played dead after being shot in Oregon elementary school rampage that killed four” → “SCHOOL MASSACRE Teacher reveals terrifying tactic she used to survive Bend school shooting Becky Drury, 54, said she lay helplessly on the classroom floor with her hand almost completely severed, desperately hoping the shooter would believe she was already dead.”

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

The Guardian Teacher wounded in Oregon school shooting played dead after she was shot Oct 22, 5 PM ET
ABC News Teacher injured in elementary school shooting says she played dead after being shot Oct 21, 10 PM ET
AP Teacher injured in Oregon school attack says she had no chance to protect children Oct 22, 2 AM ET
CBS News Teacher who survived Oregon school shooting recounts playing dead Oct 21, 6 PM ET
CNN Teacher who survived Oregon school shooting says she had no chance to protect children Oct 21, 11 PM ET
NBC News Teacher who survived Bend shooting tried to close door, ‘but the shooter was already there’ Oct 22, 8 AM ET
New York Times Oregon Teacher Disputes Account of Her Heroism During School Shooting Oct 21, 8 PM ET
PBS NewsHour Teacher injured in Oregon school shooting says she had no chance to protect students Oct 22, 8 PM ET
Yahoo News Oregon teacher says she played dead after being shot in elementary school attack Oct 22, 12 AM ET
BBC Teacher in Oregon shooting said she pretended to be dead to survive Oct 22, 11 AM ET
News Nation Teacher wounded in Oregon shooting says she played dead to survive Oct 22, 6 AM ET
The Epoch Times Teacher Injured in Oregon School Attack Says She Had No Chance to Protect Children Oct 22, 11 AM ET
The Sun SCHOOL MASSACRE Teacher recalls terrifying moment she played dead after being shot in Oregon elementary school rampage that killed four Oct 22, 7 AM ET
Fox News Injured Bend, Oregon teacher tried to shut classroom door during school shooting before playing dead Oct 22, 9 AM ET
New York Post Critically injured teacher blasted by Oregon school shooter reveals she pretended ‘to be dead’ to avoid being killed Oct 21, 8 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN5 min

Fox News21 s

TEACHER RECOUNTS BEING SHOT, PLAYING DEAD DURING ATTACK CNN, 2 min
TEACHER RECOUNTS BEING SHOT, PLAYING DEAD DURING ATTACK. Leigh Waldman | @W Correspondent CNN, 54 s
OREGON TEACHER OPENS UP ABOUT SURVIVING SCHOOL SHOOTING CNN, 39 s
16-YEAR-OLD FORMER STUDENT KILLS 3 CHILDREN, TEACHER CNN, 31 s
WOUNDED TEACHER: "BEFORE I COULD DO ANYTHING MORE, HE SHOT ME" CNN, 31 s
TEACHER: NO CHANCE TO PROTECT KIDS AFTER BEING SHOT CNN, 31 s
NEW DETAILS FROM BEND, OR SCHOOL SHOOTING CNN, 29 s
FREED AMERICAN TEACHER ARRIVES ON U.S. SOIL Fox News, 21 s