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Coverage of former FBI director James B. Comey’s testimony looks about the same across cable news channels. A closeup of a senator forming a question, a wide show of the room — there’s just not much to show on TV. But the ALL CAPS text in the bar at screen bottom differentiates networks, exposing what they want viewers to take away from the hearing.
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These captions — also called chyrons or lower-thirds — are windows into how different networks interpret the same reality.
We’re capturing what three big news networks are displaying throughout the hearing. A few times a minute, this page will update with what the networks are currently showing.
Pay attention to the quotes networks display. Do they tend to be damning for Trump, or more forgiving? Do the captions play it straight or editorialize?
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What cable networks had previously shown:
Kim Soffen and Kevin Uhrmacher contributed to this report.
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Chyron data was scraped every few seconds off of live feeds of news coverage.
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