8 outletsno alternative coverage1.3 items/hr
14 items
The most recent day in the sample — 2939 items from 25 outlets, 169 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.
No divergence has been verified, so the lead is a coverage count instead: “Pant's midnight plea to Uttarakhand CM: 'Please help me in land acquisition'” 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, 26 Jul – 08 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 10,637 items across 21 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 14 February arrived 4,557.2 days after publication, against 0 minutes on 08 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.
Pant's midnight plea to Uttarakhand CM: 'Please help me in land acquisition' is the day’s clearest saturation event. 8 outlets, 14 items, 4 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, CNN-News18, India Today, India Today (web), India TV running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.
25 outlets published items captured on 08 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 169 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 08 August 2026:
Led by Superfast News: Ranchi Student Protest | Parliament Session | PM Modi | Rahul Gandhi | Hindi News (32 items), Pant's midnight plea to Uttarakhand CM: 'Please help me in land acquisition' (14 items), Monsoon Showers Drench Delhi NCR, IMD Sounds Orange Alert (13 items)
Led by Sheikh Hasina’s Delhi event hurt ties with India, Bangladesh ‘won’t be a client state’, says Dhaka (3 items), Two TISS students denied anticipatory bail for alleged slogans supporting Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam (3 items), Gumraah: Urdu Poetry on Being Lost, Misled and Finding the Way (2 items)
Read this as a description of a 25-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.
India Today Group, Zee Media, Independent News Service — 1419 of the 2939 items captured on 08 August 2026, from 16 owner groups in all.
Language: Hindi 1702, English 1237 · Reach: Mainstream 2860, Alternative 79.
“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 19 items per outlet, but outlets publish at wildly different rates — so that window covers 54.6 hours of The Wire and 189 hours of The Quint, a 3× 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 504 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.
2939 items on this day · 25 outlets · 169 multi-outlet stories · 504 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 10637 items across 21 days, 822 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 25-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.