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🗞️ Story file #1183

Qatar offers deal to end Iran war

Oct 30, 6 PM ET to Oct 31, 6 AM ET

👣 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 30, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Slate
  2. Oct 30, 6 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 31, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 30, 8 PM10 PMOct 312 AM4 AM6 AM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 30, 6 PM to Oct 31, 6 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 306 AM12 PM6 PMOct 316 AMBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 28, 8:00 PM ET: Report: Qatar Offers Iran Deal to End War with U.S.CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 30, 10:01 AM ET: Trump predicts Iran war will end soon as Qatar pushes for a dealReutersReutersReuters, Oct 30, 10:01 AM ET: Trump on Iran war: It's going to get wrapped up soonThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 30, 11:01 AM ET: Trump Says Iran War Will End Very Soon, Fuel Prices Will FallNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 30, 3:01 PM ET: Trump: Iran War Will 'Get Wrapped Up Soon'SlateSlateSlate, Oct 30, 6:01 PM ET: Trump Keeps Hinting That the Iran War Is About to Heat Up Again📺 TVFox News, 12:41 AM ET: TRUMP URGES OTHERS TO NEGOTIATE FOR UKRAINE AS TENSIONS RISECNN, 1:04 AM ET: TRUMP DESCRIBES STATE OF IRAN WAR IN FINAL DAYS BEFORE MIDTERMSCNN, 1:04 AM ET: TRUMP DESCRIBES STATE OF IRAN WAR IN FINAL DAYS BEFORE MIDTERMSCNN, 1:05 AM ET: MURPHY: PLAN FOR ATTACKS ON IRAN AFTER ELECTION IS "INSANE". Chris Murphy | U.S. Senate DemocratCNN, 1:05 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:05 AM ET: MURPHY: PLAN FOR ATTACKS ON IRAN AFTER ELECTION IS "INSANE"CNN, 1:05 AM ET: TRUMP DESCRIBES STATE OF IRAN WAR IN FINAL DAYS BEFORE MIDTERMSCNN, 1:06 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:06 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:06 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:07 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:07 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:07 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:08 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:09 AM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRAN AFTER MIDTERMSCNN, 1:09 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSCNN, 1:10 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSCNN, 1:10 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSCNN, 1:11 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSCNN, 1:11 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERS. Mike Murphy | Political Strategist & Host, "Hacks on Tap" PodcastMSNOW, 1:12 AM ET: POLLS SHOW VOTERS' FURY OVER TRUMP'S WAR PLANSCNN, 1:12 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSCNN, 1:12 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSCNN, 1:13 AM ET: WAR IN IRAN A KEY ISSUE AMONG MIDTERM VOTERSMSNOW, 1:14 AM ET: SENATOR MURPHY WARNS TRUMP'S IRAN WAR PLAN IS "INSANE"MSNOW, 1:14 AM ET: SENATOR MURPHY WARNS TRUMP'S IRAN WAR PLAN IS "INSANE"MSNOW, 1:15 AM ET: SENATOR MURPHY WARNS TRUMP'S IRAN WAR PLAN IS "INSANE"
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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. 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

  1. “Get Wrapped Up Soon”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🫏 CNN 16 min
  2. 🫏 MSNOW 2 min
  3. 🐘 Fox News 7 s

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🎙️ On the shows

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

  1. ⚖️ Up First (NPR) 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

QatarIranDonald TrumpIran War

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 U.S.-Iran military conflict

  1. Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike report delayed medical care

    Oct 5, 1 PM ET

  2. Pentagon updates troop death toll in Iran war to 21

    Oct 11, 8 PM ET

  3. U.S. military weighs use of 'mother of all bombs' against Iran

    Oct 15, 8 AM ET

  4. Trump says U.S. may launch another military operation against Iran

    Oct 24, 11 AM ET

  5. U.S. intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached advanced stages

    Oct 24, 1 AM ET

  6. Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action

    Oct 26, 8 AM ET

  7. U.S. warns allies of possible Iran strikes after midterms

    Oct 28, 6 PM ET

  8. Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion

    Oct 28, 12 AM ET

  9. Qatar offers deal to end Iran war (this story)

    Oct 30, 6 PM ET