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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #605

Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in West Bank

Oct 18, 6 AM ET to Oct 19, 11 AM ET

πŸ‘£ 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 18, 6 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
  2. Oct 18, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 18, 12 PM6 PMOct 196 AM49leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 18, 6 AM to Oct 19, 11 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 1812 PMOct 19IJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 17, 1:00 PM ET: Settlers Attack European Diplomats in West BankFinancial TimesFinancial TimesFinancial Times, Oct 17, 1:00 PM ET: Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West BankPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 17, 1:00 PM ET: Masked settlers attack European diplomats in the occupied West BankNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 17, 2:00 PM ET: Masked Settlers Attack European Diplomats in West BankReutersReutersReuters, Oct 17, 3:00 PM ET: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, European diplomats in West Bank, Belgium saysReuters, Oct 18, 9:00 AM ET: EU condemns attacks by violent settlers, including on diplomats, spokesperson saysBBCBBCBBC, Oct 17, 3:00 PM ET: European diplomats attacked by Israeli settlers in West BankCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 17, 4:00 PM ET: EU diplomats say they were attacked by settlers in West BankThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 17, 7:00 PM ET: Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in West BankThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Oct 17, 11:01 PM ET: Masked Israeli Settlers Reportedly Ambush Diplomats In West BankπŸ“Ί TVBBC News, 10:05 PM ET: RIOTERS 1001 Stores, settlers in central villageBBC News, 1:09 AM ET: Eight arrested in connection with West Bank violenceBBC News, 1:10 AM ET: Eight arrested in connection with West Bank violenceBBC News, 3:07 AM ET: Israeli police arrests over diplomat incidentsCNN, 4:01 AM ET: WEST BANK SETTLER VIOLENCECNN, 4:11 AM ET: ISRAELI SETTLERS ATTACKSCNN, 4:12 AM ET: ISRAELI SETTLERS ATTACKSCNN, 4:18 AM ET: RUBIO: "DISTURBED" BY ISRAELI SETTLER VIOLENCE IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:19 AM ET: RUBIO ASKS ISRAEL TO "CRACK DOWN" ON SETTLER VIOLENCECNN, 4:19 AM ET: RUBIO ASKS ISRAEL TO "CRACK DOWN" ON SETTLER VIOLENCECNN, 4:19 AM ET: RUBIO: "DISTURBED" BY ISRAELI SETTLER VIOLENCE IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:20 AM ET: RUBIO ASKS ISRAEL TO "CRACK DOWN" ON SETTLER VIOLENCECNN, 4:20 AM ET: ISRAELI SETTLERS ATTACK EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:21 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:21 AM ET: NETANYAHU DOWNPLAYS ISRAELI SETTLER ATTACKS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:21 AM ET: NETANYAHU DOWNPLAYS ISRAELI SETTLER ATTACKS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:22 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:22 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:25 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:26 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:26 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKCNN, 4:27 AM ET: SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANKBBC News, 5:20 AM ET: Arrests after West Bank diplomat incidentsBBC News, 6:22 AM ET: Arrests after West Bank diplomat incidentsBBC News, 6:23 AM ET: Arrests after West Bank diplomat incidentsBBC News, 8:14 AM ET: US journalist attacked in West Bank speaks to BBCBBC News, 8:15 AM ET: US journalist attacked in West Bank speaks to BBC
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.

πŸ“‘ wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (The Guardian)

πŸ“Œ linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Reuters (2 wordings): β€œIsraeli settlers attack Palestinians, European diplomats in West Bank, Belgium says” β†’ β€œEU condemns attacks by violent settlers, including on diplomats, spokesperson says”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

πŸ“Ί On TV

CNN11 min
BBC News5 min
  • SETTLERS ATTACK JOURNALIST, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN WEST BANK CNN, 5 min
  • Arrests after West Bank diplomat incidents BBC News, 2 min
  • RUBIO ASKS ISRAEL TO "CRACK DOWN" ON SETTLER VIOLENCE CNN, 2 min
  • RUBIO: "DISTURBED" BY ISRAELI SETTLER VIOLENCE IN WEST BANK CNN, 77 s
  • Eight arrested in connection with West Bank violence BBC News, 72 s
  • NETANYAHU DOWNPLAYS ISRAELI SETTLER ATTACKS IN WEST BANK CNN, 70 s
  • US journalist attacked in West Bank speaks to BBC BBC News, 63 s
  • ISRAELI SETTLERS ATTACKS CNN, 47 s

πŸŽ™οΈ Shows, investigators, satire

πŸŽ™οΈ πŸŽ™οΈ Reuters World News πŸ“Ί The Majority Report πŸŽ™οΈ BBC Global News Podcast

🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

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

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: Israeli settlers European diplomats West Bank

πŸ”Ž Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧡 Israeli settlers attack diplomats

  1. Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in West Bank (this story)

    Oct 18, 6 AM ET

  2. Israeli police arrest 10 over settler attacks on journalist and diplomats

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET