7 outletsno alternative coverage1.6 items/hr
15 items
The most recent day in the sample — 515 items from 27 outlets, 39 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.
14 calendar days, 25 Jul – 07 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 937 items across 23 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.
The taper toward older dates is a collection artefact, not a finding. Each RSS feed returns only its latest 15–200 items, so a day that had already passed when ingestion started — or before a given outlet was added to the config — was captured shallowly or not at all. A smaller count on an older day means the crawler saw less of that day. It does not mean less news happened, and the shape of this strip is not a trend in news volume. 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.
Where Is Atiq Ahmed's Family Now? Who's Dead, Jailed Or Still Missing is the day’s clearest saturation event. 7 outlets, 15 items, 14 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, ABP News, India TV, NDTV India, News18 (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 39 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 07 August 2026:
Led by Where Is Atiq Ahmed's Family Now? Who's Dead, Jailed Or Still Missing (15 items), Dissecting the CJP Movement | How Did It Get So Big? What’s Next for 🪳? Abhijeet Dipke speaks (7 items), Tamil Nadu CM Vijay's wife Sangeetha withdraws divorce petition; case disposed (5 items)
No story in this window was carried by alternative outlets alone.
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.
“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 15 items per outlet, but outlets publish at wildly different rates — so that window covers 1.1 hours of WION and 1,086 hours of Dhruv Rathee, a 1,011× 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 30 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.
515 items on this day · 27 outlets · 39 multi-outlet stories · 30 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 937 items across 23 days, 56 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.