🧵 Saga file #11
Saudi-Yemeni offensive in Red Sea
Oct 4, 11 AM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 3parts so far
- 26outlets carried a part
- 🫏13 · 5 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 2.3 daysrunning so far
- 154 minof TV captions
- 5radio newscasts
- 21people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 4, 11 AM ET · on the front pages 2.3 daysYemeni and Saudi forces launch counteroffensive against Houthis
- Oct 4, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 1.2 daysHouthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh
- Oct 5, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 1 hourYemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb Strait
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Yemeni and Saudi forces launch counteroffensive against Houthis
Oct 4, 11 AM ET · 25 outlets · on the front pages 2.3 days · 🔴 now
“Report: US Won't Join Saudi Offensive Against Houthis” first: Newsmax
📺 BBC News 111 min, CNN 15 min, Fox News 4 min · 📻 4 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 21
2. Houthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh
Oct 4, 2 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 1.2 days
“Yemen's Houthis say they attacked Aramco facility in Riyadh with missiles, drones” first: Reuters
📺 BBC News 23 min · 📻 1 newscast
3. Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Oct 5, 3 PM ET · 0 outlets · on the front pages 1 hour
(older than a week: no page of its own)
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Yemeni government forces, with Saudi support, are reclaiming key areas around the Bab al-Mandeb Strait from the Houthis. told by 21 people, on “Yemeni and Saudi forces launch counteroffensive against Houthis”
🧩 Government counteroffensive