U.S. moves aircraft from second UK base over Iran threat

🗞️ Story file #1669

U.S. moves aircraft from second UK base over Iran threat

Nov 10, 5 AM ET to Nov 10, 10 AM ET

21outlets carried it
🫏8 · 5 · 8🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
22 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
10people retold it online
8 of 8parts of a saga

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Nov 10, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 10, 5 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Nov 10, 5 AM ETretold online by 10 people
Nov 10, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Nov 10, 10 AM ETpeak: on 21 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 10, 5 AM to Nov 10, 10 AM ET (peak 21), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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

“Iran Threat”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “U.S. Military Aircraft Depart Second UK Base After 'Iran Threat'” → “U.S. Military Aircraft Depart Second U.K. Base After ‘Iran Threat’”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News US evacuates aircraft from British military base after threat from Iran, WSJ reports” → “US evacuates aircraft from British military base after threat from Iran, WSJ reports”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “US Air Force Evacuates Tankers from Base in England Due to Iran Threat, Wall Street Journal Reports” → “US Air Force Evacuates Tankers From Base in England Due to Iran Threat”
Reuters (2 wordings): “US aircraft evacuated from second British base due to Iran threat, WSJ reports” → “US aircraft evacuated from second British base due to Iran threat, WSJ reports - Reuters”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “US reportedly evacuates aircraft from RAF Mildenhall over Iran threat” → “US reportedly evacuates aircraft from UK airbase over Iran threat”
The Independent (2 wordings): “US military planes ‘pulled out of second UK airbase over Iran threats]” → “US military planes ‘pulled out of second UK airbase over Iran threats”
The Washington Times (2 wordings): “U.S Air Force evacuates tankers from base in England due to Iran threat, Wall Street Journal reports” → “U.S Air Force evacuates tankers from base in England due to Iran threat”