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🗞️ Story file #100

Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike report delayed medical care

Oct 5, 1 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 5, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Caller
  2. Oct 5, 3 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
  3. Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 5, 6 PMOct 66 AM12 PM6 PM48leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 1 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 5, 12 PM6 PMOct 66 AM12 PM6 PMHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 5, 7:10 AM ET: Soldiers Seriously Wounded In Iranian Drone Strike Say Military’s Medical System Failed ThemThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 5, 8:00 AM ET: Wounded soldiers say military’s medical system failed them after Iranian drone strikesMilitary.comMilitary.comMilitary.com, Oct 5, 11:00 AM ET: Soldiers Seriously Wounded in Iranian Drone Strike Say the Military’s Medical System Failed ThemMilitary.com, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Soldiers Wounded by Iranian Drone Strike Accuse Military Health Care System of Failing Them Read MoreThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 5, 11:00 AM ET: Soldiers Wounded in Iranian Drone Strike Say They Aren't Getting Proper CareFortuneFortuneFortune, Oct 5, 11:00 AM ET: ‘I was just kind of on my own’: Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike say the Army ‘took too long’ to treat their injuriesThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Oct 5, 1:00 PM ET: Soldiers Wounded In Iran War Reportedly Failed By Medical SystemRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: US soldiers wounded in Iran attack speak out after horrific medical treatment by PentagonLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike say the military’s medical system failed themMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Soldiers Seriously Injured in Iran War Say Pentagon Has Failed Them: ‘I Was Just Kind of On My Own’The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say Pentagon Made Them Fend for Themselves🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “I Was Just Kind of On My Own” “I was just kind of on my own” “took too long”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Military.com (2 wordings): “Soldiers Seriously Wounded in Iranian Drone Strike Say the Military’s Medical System Failed Them” → “Soldiers Wounded by Iranian Drone Strike Accuse Military Health Care System of Failing Them Read More”
Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike received inadequate and delayed medical care from the military, forcing them to seek treatment on their own. Oct 6: told by 7 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Iran United States Army Soldiers Iranian Drone Strike Military Medical System U.S. Military

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

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