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The beat · 2078 outlets audited · page 48 of 52

Every outlet the desk has read, and the pieces where it appears. Counts are distinct audits — the desk reports who it keeps reading, not who is “worst.”

The spread, by AllSides lean

Left 2 · Lean Left 11 · Center 5 · Lean Right 1 · Right 2 · +2057 local / wire / foreign, unrated

Lean ratings are from AllSides, an independent rater — not the desk. The desk holds every masthead to the same two-span standard. Mainstream and wire outlets appear most because they are the factual baseline partisan framings are checked against — this is the reading list, not a verdict on who is “worse.”

U.S. Department of State (official report page)1 audit

The State Department names a livestreamer, a labor organizer and a congresswoman's daughter as Cuban "fellow travelers" — and the wire copy carrying the story calls the same document "little new information"July 21, 2026

U.S. Department of War (war.gov) — PRIMARY SOURCE, not an outlet-bucket member1 audit

Two Names for the Building, Four Role Words for the Job, and One Speech Under All of ItSeptember 30, 2026

U.S. District Court, N.D. Okla. (primary source: Opinion and Order)1 audit

The coverage brief: Judge Sara E. Hill suppressed the evidence in one Tulsa stop, called the ALPR search "indiscriminate mass surveillance," and two days later the wires and nearly every legacy and international desk were silent — while the outlets that did show up split over whether the ruling is one search or all of Flock.October 4, 2026

U.S. DOJ, Office of the Pardon Attorney1 audit

A Podcast Said No Member of Congress Was Ever Charged With Insider Trading; the Justice Department's Website Has Been Saying Otherwise Since 2018September 15, 2026

U.S. DOJ, SDNY1 audit

A Podcast Said No Member of Congress Was Ever Charged With Insider Trading; the Justice Department's Website Has Been Saying Otherwise Since 2018September 15, 2026

U.S. Energy Information Administration1 audit

Trump's self-imposed deadline to cut electricity bills in half arrives today. The government's own price table shows them up eighteen percent instead — and even the deadline itself isn't the same number twiceJuly 20, 2026

U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo)1 audit

Bloomberg's Tuesday count sets the president's disclosed trades against all of Capitol Hill's in the same seventeen months — and the exclusion is not a carve-out clause. It is a definition whose list stops at the legislature's edgeSeptember 16, 2026

U.S. News & World Report1 audit

A record cyclospora outbreak is real and spreading across 34 states — but the count is 843 one day and 7,000 the next, the "investigated" suspect (Taco Bell) is one officials say they "have not confirmed a link" to, and whether gutted federal monitoring caused it is a claim two sets of desks tell very differentlyJuly 15, 2026

U.S. News & World Report (AP wire, 'The Latest' file)1 audit

America.gov Said Biden Won. The Hill and Variety Reached for "Confirms," and Five Pages Never Mentioned ItSeptember 29, 2026

U.S. Office of Government Ethics1 audit

Bloomberg's Tuesday count sets the president's disclosed trades against all of Capitol Hill's in the same seventeen months — and the exclusion is not a carve-out clause. It is a definition whose list stops at the legislature's edgeSeptember 16, 2026

U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE.gov)1 audit

Trump's June Filing Lists 1,109 May Trades, 164 Flagged as Notified Late, Bonds From New York City, Philadelphia and Cuyahoga County, and a Treasury Fund Sold the Day a Foreign-Treasury Fund Was Bought; Six Newsrooms Covered His Other Filings, and None Covered This OneSeptember 12, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (agency, PR 2026-96)1 audit

The SEC Voted. The Right-Roster Press File It Under Missing.October 3, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission Votes record, September 2026)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (fact sheet)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (official roster page)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (press release 2026-89)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (proposing release 34-106383; File No. S7-2026-32)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (remarks of Commissioner Hester M. Peirce)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (statement of Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda)1 audit

On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder-proposal rule adopted in some form since 1942. The comment period, per the release's own DATES section, closes on a date the Commission rendered as "[INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]." That is not an ellipsis by the desk. It is the verbatim text of the operative document, and as of this morning's fetch the Federal Register has not published the release, so the deadline for the public to weigh in on an 84-year-old rule is, formally, a fill-in-the-blank. This is a brief on what the press did with a story whose own clock has not started.September 17, 2026

U.S. Senate1 audit

A caption said he may be showing up "primarily for votes where his vote could actually count or matter." Three attended roll calls, one missed morning vote, and one committee room later, that theory fits two of his four appearances. The theory that fits all four is a clock.September 17, 2026

U.S. Senate (official roll call vote)1 audit

The Fourth Republican 'No' Was Susan Collins. Two Outlets Carried Rand Paul at Freeze, and the Senate's Own Tally Closed the File.September 16, 2026

U.S. Senate (senate.gov) — procedural record1 audit

One senator changed his mind in public over fifteen months, and the record of the change is mostly one wire story wearing five mastheadsOctober 6, 2026

U.S. Senate / LDA.gov1 audit

A lobbying disclosure and a federal award both say immigration. One means green cards. The other means Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No outlet put them on the same page.September 12, 2026

U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry1 audit

A caption said he may be showing up "primarily for votes where his vote could actually count or matter." Three attended roll calls, one missed morning vote, and one committee room later, that theory fits two of his four appearances. The theory that fits all four is a clock.September 17, 2026

U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration1 audit

The agency that enforces federal campaign finance law has spent 504 days without the four votes it needs to enforce anything, has twice notified federal courts that it cannot defend itself, and has watched its two would-be commissioners accumulate one Senate action line since February — while the committee chair who said he looked forward to “a timely hearing” held the gavel, and the referrals, for the 116 days between that sentence and the fall that hospitalized himSeptember 17, 2026

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (Sen. Chuck Grassley) - PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENT, not a news outlet1 audit

An FBI Agent Proposed a Musk Investigation in 2025. No Outlet in the Corpus Reports One Was Opened — and the Outlets Our Corpus Found Silent Are Half the StorySeptember 16, 2026

U.S. Senate Office of Public Records (eFD)1 audit

Two federal disclosure systems, fifteen years, and the only line that isn't a bank account is a defined-benefit pension his wife sold last year and a 529 education plan that bought and sold itself back within six months in 2014-15. The senator campaigning to ban stock trading by Congress represents the same state, and backs the same bill, as a House colleague whose trust held and traded individual stocks — the practice the bill targets — until he ordered it to stop, last year.September 13, 2026

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics1 audit

A Podcast Said No Member of Congress Was Ever Charged With Insider Trading; the Justice Department's Website Has Been Saying Otherwise Since 2018September 15, 2026

U.S. Supreme Court — Concurrence (Gorsuch, J.)1 audit

The Supreme Court overruled Chevron in Loper Bright — and I went hunting for one fact the majority and the Kagan dissent both assert and cannot both be true, and came back emptyJuly 13, 2026

U.S. Supreme Court — Dissent (Kagan, J.)1 audit

The Supreme Court overruled Chevron in Loper Bright — and I went hunting for one fact the majority and the Kagan dissent both assert and cannot both be true, and came back emptyJuly 13, 2026

U.S. Supreme Court — Majority (Roberts, C. J.)1 audit

The Supreme Court overruled Chevron in Loper Bright — and I went hunting for one fact the majority and the Kagan dissent both assert and cannot both be true, and came back emptyJuly 13, 2026

U.S. Supreme Court — Syllabus1 audit

The Supreme Court overruled Chevron in Loper Bright — and I went hunting for one fact the majority and the Kagan dissent both assert and cannot both be true, and came back emptyJuly 13, 2026

UA.NEWS (Ukraine)1 audit

The transcript keeps two sentences apart that one report fused — and a Ukrainian relay carried the fusion to a second mastheadOctober 16, 2026

UA.NEWS (Ukraine, English edition)1 audit

Hegseth Will Cut a Fifth of the Pentagon's Flag Ranks. Fox Broke It at Breakfast; the Left and the Wires Were Still Dark at Fetch TimeSeptember 29, 2026

UK Crown Prosecution Service (primary source)1 audit

Andrew and Tristan Tate are fighting UK extradition on new rape and trafficking charges — and the Justice Department can't agree with their own lawyer about who at DOJ said yesJuly 21, 2026

UKMTO1 audit

When a hijacked ship's paperwork is the story, the coverage files her under whichever name it has — and the machinery built to answer hijackings finds nobody to ask.August 21, 2026

Ukrainska Pravda (domestic Ukrainian)1 audit

A third week of protests over a fired defense minister came to central Kyiv as an organized march — and the coverage filed the crowd at four different sizes, the demand under two names, and the dismissal itself at three causesAugust 2, 2026

Ukranews1 audit

Three strikes in five days destroy the WHO's warehouse in Dnipro; four files name the striker in their first sentence, and the owner's file is built not toAugust 10, 2026

UkrMedia News (ukrmedia.news, Ukraine, English edition)1 audit

Putin Ally Paid for the Parties — or the Wedding: Nine Newsrooms, Two Words, One SplitSeptember 15, 2026

United24 Media1 audit

Musk is reported to refuse Ukraine the Starlink targeting it asked Trump to arrange — and the file cannot agree whether the decision is made, or whose it isAugust 9, 2026

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