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Blind man takes legal action over Bayeux Tapestry accessibility

Rank
Ran
38h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
3

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RTÉ Ireland · English 30 Sept, 11:51 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Français (1) · Română (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 39 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: RTÉ, 30 Sept, 11:51 UTC.
  2. Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 11:51 UTC.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Arab News.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

39 of 39 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%62%25%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 62%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%

First movers

  1. RTÉ 30 Sept, 11:51 UTC
  2. The Independent +43m
  3. HotNews +58m
  4. BBC News +4h 24m
  5. Arab News +7h 6m

Last to join

  1. Malay Mail 2 Oct, 02:30 UTC
  2. Le Figaro 1 Oct, 13:28 UTC
  3. Daily Sabah 1 Oct, 07:17 UTC
  4. Arab News 30 Sept, 18:57 UTC
  5. BBC News 30 Sept, 16:16 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 2 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 4: France, Ireland, Romania, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, French, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article RTÉ, 30 Sept 2026, 11:51 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 12:00 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 02:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
30 Sept 2026 352 3.71 5 4 5 4 4.0
1 Oct 2026 366 3.40 7 6 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 12:00 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 02:30 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Malay Mail Malaysia 2 Oct, 02:30 UTC
    Blind visitor prompts British Museum to improve Bayeux Tapestry access

Europe 5 outlets

  • Le Figaro France 1 Oct, 13:28 UTC
    Royaume-Uni : un homme aveugle accuse le British Museum de discrimination sur l’accessibilité à la Tapisserie de Bayeux
  • BBC News United Kingdom 30 Sept, 16:16 UTC
    Tapestry tour added for blind after legal threat
  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 14:26 UTC
    British Museum sued by blind man over lack of Bayeux Tapestry audio guides
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Blind man sues British Museum in Bayeux Tapestry discrimination row 30 Sept, 12:35 UTC
  • HotNews Romania 30 Sept, 12:49 UTC
    British Museum, dat în judecată din cauza expoziției cu Tapiseria de la Bayeux. Ce acuză un bărbat nevăzător
  • RTÉ Ireland 30 Sept, 11:51 UTC
    Blind man takes legal action over Bayeux Tapestry access

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Daily Sabah Turkey 1 Oct, 07:17 UTC
    Blind visitor takes legal action over Bayeux Tapestry accessibility
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 30 Sept, 18:57 UTC
    Blind man sues British Museum over lack of audio tours for Bayeux Tapestry
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