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On This Day, July 21: Monkey Trial ends with guilty verdict in Tennessee
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Extra Extra has grouped 7 reports on this story from 7 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 5 left-leaning and 2 center sources.
Its coverage-diversity score of 54 out of 100 means the story is being reported across multiple parts of the spectrum, though the volume leans toward one side. Notably, no right-leaning outlet in our index has picked the story up yet — a right-side blind spot that often signals a topic resonating more with progressive audiences.
On reliability, 7 of the 7 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
Coverage of this story has developed over roughly 22 hours, so the perspectives below capture how the framing shifted as the story matured.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: The Boston Globe, Honolulu Civil Beat, Democracy Now!, Chicago Sun-Times, Slate, UPI, Euronews.
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The Boston GlobeAJul 21, 10:00 AM
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Honolulu Civil BeatBJul 21, 10:01 AM
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Democracy Now!BJul 20, 12:00 PM
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Chicago Sun-TimesBJul 21, 5:01 AM
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SlateBJul 21, 10:00 AM
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UPIBJul 21, 7:00 AM
On This Day, July 21: Monkey Trial ends with guilty verdict in Tennessee
On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., in one of the great confrontations in legal history, ended with John Thomas
EuronewsBJul 21, 10:00 AM
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