Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza dies at 46

🗞️ Story file #956

Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza dies at 46

Oct 26, 6 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

22outlets carried it
🫏11 · 3 · 8🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
30 sof TV captions
3radio newscasts
10people retold it online

👣 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 26, 6 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
Oct 26, 8 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 26, 8 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages
Oct 27, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 10 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 6 AM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 21), 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: 3 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word (ABC News, Just the News, PBS NewsHour)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Suddenly” “Looney Tunes”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 award-winning looney 🐘 voice behind 🐘 behind bugs

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

ABC News (2 wordings): “Eric Bauza, voice of beloved Looney Tunes characters, dies at 46” → “Voice of Looney Tunes characters dies at 46”
CNN (2 wordings): “Eric Bauza, voice actor behind Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes stars, dies at 46” → “Eric Bauza, voice actor behind Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes stars, dies at 46 The Emmy Award-winner passed away Sunday from hypertensive cardiovascular disease, according to records”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Eric Bauza, who voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, dead at 46” → “Actor who voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck dead at 46”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Eric Bauza, voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, dies at 46” → “Eric Bauza, voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, dies at 46 - The Washington Post”

Every outlet's first headline (22), left to right by AllSides rating