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🗞️ Story file #960

Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action

Oct 26, 8 AM ET to Oct 27, 1 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast
6 of 9parts of a saga

👣 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.

Oct 26, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
Oct 26, 1 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 26, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 8 AM to Oct 27, 1 AM ET (peak 8), 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

“Do I Make a Deal or Finish Them Off?”3
“finish it off”2
“Leaning Toward”1
“Deal with Iran or Finish Them Off?”3
“make a deal”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

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

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “Trump: ‘Deal with Iran or Finish Them Off?’ — U.S. Readies Strike Options” → “…Trump on Iran: ‘Do I Make a Deal or Finish Them Off?’”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

CBS News Trump says he's weighing Iran deal vs. action to "finish them" Oct 26, 5 AM ET
CNBC Trump says he'll soon decide whether to ‘make a deal’ with Iran or ‘finish it off' Oct 26, 8 AM ET
CNN US has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses Oct 26, 1 PM ET
Mediaite Trump Reportedly ‘Leaning Toward’ Major Strikes in Iran After the Election Oct 26, 8 AM ET
Yahoo News Trump says he's weighing deal with Iran against action to 'finish them off' Oct 25, 7 PM ET
Bloomberg Trump Says Decision Nearing on Iran: Deal or ‘Finish It Off’ Oct 25, 4 PM ET
Breitbart Trump: ‘Deal with Iran or Finish Them Off?’ — U.S. Readies Strike Options Oct 25, 7 PM ET
IJR Trump Weighs Quick Iran War End, Oil Seizure Oct 25, 7 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left
center
right

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

📺🤷 No TV captions matched to it.

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

🫏 ABC News Update 1× · best #2

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

🕵️ 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.

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

Donald TrumpIran

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 U.S.-Iran military conflict

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Oct 5, 1 PM ET
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Oct 11, 8 PM ET
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Oct 15, 8 AM ET
Trump says U.S. may launch another military operation against Iran
Oct 24, 11 AM ET
U.S. intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached advanced stages
Oct 24, 1 AM ET
Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action (this story)
Oct 26, 8 AM ET
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Oct 28, 6 PM ET
Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion
Oct 28, 12 AM ET
Qatar offers deal to end Iran war
Oct 30, 6 PM ET