HormuzStraitIranTrumpWar
6 outletsno alternative coverage2.0 items/hr
12 items
Media Tracker · Public feed · Thursday 20 August 2026 · Built 20 Aug, 12:00 IST
What the newsrooms chased today
The most recent day in the sample — 1185 items from 22 outlets, 56 of the day’s stories carried by more than one. Below: what got covered, what got ignored, and what a human has actually verified. That last number is currently 0, and it is printed honestly. Earlier days are one click away.
Find a storyheadline or outlet · any script
Every story page on this site, searched by headline and by the outlets that carried it. Matching is on the text as published, so a Devanagari or Tamil headline is searched in its own script — nothing is transliterated. Findings are not searchable: only a story has a page.
No verified divergence today · the day’s most-covered story
same story6 outlets · 12 items
No divergence has been verified, so the lead is a coverage count instead: “Iran America War Update: Trump का ऐलान, Strait of Hormuz पर अमेरिका का कंट्रोल! ईरान का बड़ा हमला” drew more separate items on this day than any other story in the sample. Two of them are shown. That is what was published, not a claim about why. See the order of publication ↗
Browse by day
14 calendar days, 07 Aug – 20 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 79,623 items across 44 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.
Fri076419
Sat085126
Sun094672
Mon105627
Tue115349
Wed126674
Thu136986
Fri145920
Sat155623
Sun164897
Mon176542
Tue186548
Wed196096
Thu201185
The taper toward older dates measures the crawler, not the news. Ingestion began on 07 August 2026; every earlier day was reconstructed from what was left in each feed rather than watched. The first item captured from 14 February arrived 4,557.2 days after publication, against 0 minutes on 20 August — that gap, not the news, is what the strip is shaped by. Each RSS feed returns only its latest 15–200 items, so a day’s total is a record of what the crawler saw rather than a measurement of the day: a smaller count is a collection artefact, not a finding. It does not mean less news happened. The bands above are order-of-magnitude only, and no day’s total should be read as a measurement of that day or compared against another’s.
The day’s agenda
Ranked by how many separate items outlets published on this one calendar day (UTC) — the one reach-style measure that is comparable across outlets today. Bars show the mainstream and alternative share of the outlets covering each story.
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02
Amit ShahTamil NaduZonal Council
5 outletsno alternative coverage2.8 items/hr
6 items
03
Kenya
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.3 items/hr
4 items
04
Prince Harry Meghan Markle
4 outletsno alternative coverage0.9 items/hr
4 items
05
TrumpKim JongNorth Korea
4 outletsno alternative coverage4.3 items/hr
4 items
06
Russia Ukraine WarPutin Zelenskyy
3 outletsno alternative coverage2.6 items/hr
12 items
Iran America War Update: Trump का ऐलान, Strait of Hormuz पर अमेरिका का कंट्रोल! ईरान का बड़ा हमला is the day’s clearest saturation event. 6 outlets, 12 items, 6 of them inside 2 hours — ABP News, CNN-News18, India Today, Republic Bharat, Times of India (web) running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.
Source map
22 outlets published items captured on 20 August 2026, 6 of them alternative, 1185 items in total. Every outlet links to its own site or channel so any figure here can be walked back to where it came from.
Share is share of what was captured, not of what was published. An item count is publishing volume — a channel posting rolling updates outweighs one filing twice — and on any day before ingestion started it is also capped by how far back that outlet’s feed reached. Stories counts how many of the day’s multi-outlet stories a source touched, which is the closer measure of agenda weight.
| Outlet | Owner | Type | Items | Share | Stories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABP News | abp network | mainstream | 180 | 15.2% | 7 |
| India Today (web) | india today group | mainstream | 141 | 11.9% | 11 |
| Zee News | zee media | mainstream | 138 | 11.6% | 4 |
| India Today | india today group | mainstream | 110 | 9.3% | 16 |
| TV9 Bharatvarsh | tv9 network | mainstream | 96 | 8.1% | 12 |
| India TV | independent news service | mainstream | 91 | 7.7% | 10 |
| Republic Bharat | republic media network | mainstream | 80 | 6.8% | 14 |
| The Hindu (web) | the hindu group | mainstream | 80 | 6.8% | 7 |
| WION | zee media | mainstream | 56 | 4.7% | 11 |
| CNN-News18 | network18 | mainstream | 47 | 4.0% | 13 |
| Times of India (web) | times group | mainstream | 39 | 3.3% | 9 |
| Times Now | times group | mainstream | 31 | 2.6% | 6 |
| NDTV India | ndtv | mainstream | 24 | 2.0% | 1 |
| Republic World | republic media network | mainstream | 23 | 1.9% | 7 |
| NDTV (web) | ndtv | mainstream | 20 | 1.7% | 3 |
| Scroll.in (web) | scroll media | alternative | 12 | 1.0% | 2 |
| News18 India | network18 | mainstream | 5 | 0.4% | 0 |
| ThePrint | printline media | alternative | 5 | 0.4% | 1 |
| Mojo Story | mojo story | alternative | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
| The Quint (web) | quintillion media | alternative | 2 | 0.2% | 0 |
| Newslaundry | newslaundry | alternative | 1 | 0.1% | 1 |
| Newslaundry (web) | newslaundry | alternative | 1 | 0.1% | 1 |
Blind spots
Of the 56 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 20 August 2026:
52
Covered only by mainstream
Led by Dhirendra Shastri Exclusive | 'चश्मा लगाते..टोपी लगाते' बागेश्वर बाबा का तगड़ा जवाब !| NDTV India (13 items), Iran America War Update: Trump का ऐलान, Strait of Hormuz पर अमेरिका का कंट्रोल! ईरान का बड़ा हमला (12 items), Russia-Ukraine War Update: यूक्रेन के खिलाफ रूस की ट्रेनिंग-TV9 | Putin | Zelenskyy (12 items)
1
Covered only by alternative
Led by Why ‘Dimaagi Naxal’ is India’s most dangerous label yet (2 items)
Read this as a description of a 22-outlet sample on one day, not a verdict on Indian media. The mainstream set is larger and posts far more often, so it will dominate any raw count. The number worth watching over weeks is the second one — and on days captured before ingestion started, both numbers are held down by how little of that day was collected at all.
Who owns the day
53%
Top three owner groups
India Today Group, Zee Media, ABP Network — 625 of the 1185 items captured on 20 August 2026, from 15 owner groups in all.
Language and reach
Language: Hindi 614, English 571 · Reach: Mainstream 1161, Alternative 24.
What we can and cannot say about attention
“What captured the nation’s attention” is two different questions, and only one of them is answerable from this data today.
Measurable now
Agenda
What newsrooms chose to chase. Coverage counts inside one calendar day are directly comparable across outlets — everything above is built on this.
Not measurable yet
Attention
What people actually watched. View counts exist, but cannot yet be compared honestly across outlets. See below.
Why the view counts are withheld. The feeds return a fixed 9700 items per outlet, but outlets publish at wildly different rates — so that window covers 316.6 hours of News18 India and 317 hours of News18 India, a 1× difference. Ranked naively by total views, the slow-posting outlet wins on accumulated time rather than on audience.
Normalising to views-per-hour reverses the ranking, and is also wrong — a three-hour-old video is still climbing while a seven-week-old one has saturated. Both directions are artefacts of posting cadence, so no audience ranking is published here.
The fix is a scheduler, not a scraper: poll repeatedly and measure the change in each video’s view count over time. That yields real velocity curves and needs no paid API. Until it runs, this section stays empty on purpose.
Verified callouts
0 published
Nothing has been verified yet.
The pipeline surfaced 1623 candidates in this run. A human has confirmed none of them, so this feed is empty — and it stays empty until someone confirms a finding and writes it up in their own words.
An empty feed is the honest state. Filling it with machine output would defeat the point of having it.
Corrections
Errors found in this tracker’s own output are published here permanently, whether or not anything was released publicly.
No corrections logged.
No candidate has been reviewed and rejected with a written reason yet. When one is, it appears here and stays here.
1185 items on this day · 22 outlets · 56 multi-outlet stories · 1623 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 79623 items across 44 days, 2864 stories.
Sources are public RSS feeds from outlet-operated YouTube channels and news sites. Headlines are quoted verbatim for commentary and criticism, each linked to its original. Hindi glosses are unverified working translations. Coverage counts describe a 22-outlet sample on a single day and are not a ranking of Indian media. Per-day totals reflect how much of each day the crawler captured, not how much news there was. Times are UTC. No legal review has been done.