← back to the front page

🗞️ Story file #1378

Trump confirms US strike on iranian air defense site

Nov 4, 5 AM ET to Nov 4, 7 AM ET

📰 read it at: HuffPost Financial Times The Epoch Times Fox News New York Post Newsmax

👣 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. Nov 4, 7 AM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Nov 4, 6 AM7 AM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 4, 5 AM to Nov 4, 7 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Nov 3, 6 AM12 PM6 PMNov 46 AMFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Nov 3, 12:01 AM ET: Trump sends message about US conflict with Iran before election polls openThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Nov 3, 2:01 PM ET: Trump Confirms US Strike on Iranian Air Defense SiteNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Nov 3, 4:01 PM ET: Why Trump only has a few weeks to restart Iran war — and what he could target with new strikesFinancial TimesFinancial TimesFinancial Times, Nov 3, 7:01 PM ET: US has no immediate plan to strike Iran, Trump tells FTNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Nov 3, 8:01 PM ET: Trump: US Has No Immediate Plan to Strike IranHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Nov 3, 8:01 PM ET: Trump Says U.S. Has No Immediate Plans To Strike Iran: Financial Times
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. “There Hasn't Been Shooting For Months”2
  2. “Not Fighting a War”1
  3. “soft war”1
  4. “We Haven't Been Fighting for Months”1

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

📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about 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. ⚖️ Bloomberg News Now 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

IranDonald TrumpFinancial Times

🔎 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 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. Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions

    Oct 23, 7 PM ET

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

    Oct 24, 11 AM ET

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

    Oct 24, 1 AM ET

  7. Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action

    Oct 26, 8 AM ET

  8. Trump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war

    Oct 26, 11 AM ET

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

    Oct 28, 6 PM ET

  10. Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion

    Oct 28, 12 AM ET

  11. Trump says Iran war will end soon

    Oct 30, 6 PM ET

  12. Iran's Supreme leader threatens response without geographic limits as Trump weighs new strikes

    Oct 31, 1 PM ET

  13. Iranian and Qatari negotiators continue talks to end US-Iran war

    Oct 30, 7 PM ET

  14. Netanyahu urges Trump to consider strikes on Iran

    Nov 2, 4 PM ET

  15. Iran proposes 2-day plan to reopen Strait of hormuz

    Nov 3, 12 PM ET

  16. Oil prices fall on hopes for US-Iran diplomatic talks

    Nov 2, 1 PM ET

  17. Tucker Carlson claims Trump is considering nuclear strike on Iran

    Nov 2, 3 PM ET

  18. Trump confirms US strike on iranian air defense site (this story)

    Nov 4, 5 AM ET

  19. Trump says Iran wants settlement, deal could happen

    Nov 2, 5 PM ET

  20. U.S. strikes Iran as Trump downplays conflict

    Nov 3, 2 PM ET

  21. U.S. military conducts defensive strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island

    Nov 2, 10 PM ET

  22. Trump meets with national security team as decision on potential strikes against Iran pending

    Nov 6, 11 AM ET

  23. Trump weighs next steps in Iran conflict after midterm losses

    Nov 7, 10 AM ET

  24. U.S. conducts minor strikes on Iranian targets near Strait of Hormuz

    Nov 7, 10 AM ET

  25. Trump and Rubio defend Iran war amid GOP midterm losses

    Nov 8, 10 PM ET

  26. Oil prices fall below $90 as Iran tensions ease

    Nov 10, 6 AM ET

  27. Trump meets Qatari mediator as Iran war status quo continues

    Nov 8, 5 PM ET

  28. Treasury secretary moves to military base amid Iranian threats

    Nov 10, 11 PM ET

👋 About bignews.day · how it works
Rebuilt every hour from the front pages of the outlets we follow.
Lean ratings: AllSides (CC BY-NC 4.0) · reliability: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Everything else (mood, spin, feelings, framing) is our own reading of the headlines.
Our methods log: CC BY 4.0. The motif index, our readings and our other writing: © bignews.day, all rights reserved.
We count visits with GoatCounter: no cookies, nothing personal kept.