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The most recent day in the sample — 6680 items from 27 outlets, 456 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 1, and it is printed honestly. Earlier days are one click away.
No divergence has been verified, so the lead is a coverage count instead: “Watch: Mallikarjun Kharge Vs Kiren Rijiju Fiery Face-Off In Lok Sabha | Parliament | India Today” 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 ↗
14 calendar days, 25 Jul – 07 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 15,894 items across 23 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.
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 20 June arrived 48.1 days after publication, against 0 minutes on 07 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.
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.
Watch: Mallikarjun Kharge Vs Kiren Rijiju Fiery Face-Off In Lok Sabha | Parliament | India Today is the day’s clearest saturation event. 14 outlets, 25 items, 8 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, ABP News, Indian Express (web), India Today, India Today (web) running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.
27 outlets published items captured on 07 August 2026, 8 of them alternative. Listed alphabetically, not ranked: an item count is publishing volume, and on any day before ingestion started it is also capped by how far back that outlet’s feed reached.
Of the 456 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 07 August 2026:
Led by Atiq Ahmad Son Aban Dies In Car Accident: अतीक अहमद के बेटे अबान अहमद की मौत | Jhansi News (92 items), Jharkhand Students Continue Protest, Demand CBI Probe Into JPSC-JSSC Row | Hemant Soren | News18 (55 items), Big Breakin on Atiq Ahmed Son LIVE: पलट गई अतीक के बेटे Abaan Ahmed की गाड़ी | Jhansi Accident | UP (49 items)
Led by Filmmaker Shruti Ganguly’s Message To Anti-Trump, Pro-Modi Diaspora Indians | VIGILANT | The Quint (2 items), H-1B, L-1 visa extensions may get costlier under Trump plan: What it means for Indians (2 items)
Read this as a description of a 27-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.
Network18, India Today Group, NDTV — 3284 of the 6680 items captured on 07 August 2026, from 17 owner groups in all.
Language: Hindi 3923, English 2757 · Reach: Mainstream 6563, Alternative 117.
“What captured the nation’s attention” is two different questions, and only one of them is answerable from this data today.
What newsrooms chose to chase. Coverage counts inside one calendar day are directly comparable across outlets — everything above is built on this.
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 1000 items per outlet, but outlets publish at wildly different rates — so that window covers 25.5 hours of News18 India and 130 hours of CNN-News18, a 5× 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.
The pipeline surfaced 997 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.
Errors found in this tracker’s own output are published here permanently, whether or not anything was released publicly.
No candidate has been reviewed and rejected with a written reason yet. When one is, it appears here and stays here.
6680 items on this day · 27 outlets · 456 multi-outlet stories · 997 candidates · 1 verified · 0 published
Archive: 15894 items across 23 days, 1089 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 27-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.