🗞️ Story file #1462
Shooting at des Moines post office leaves 3 injured, suspect detained
Nov 5, 12 PM ET to Nov 5, 2 PM ET
- 15outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 3 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 15front pages at once, at its peak
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- Nov 5, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
- Nov 5, 2 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 7 times in 10 (148 stories)
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CNN (2 wordings): “3 hospitalized and suspect in custody after shooting at Des Moines post office, police say” → “Postal worker accused of shooting 2 co-workers at Des Moines post office, police say”
- News Nation (2 wordings): “Multiple injured, suspect detained in Iowa post office shooting: Report” → “Multiple injured, suspect detained in Iowa post office shooting”
- The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “DEVELOPING: Multiple People Injured in Shooting at Des Moines Post Office” → “Multiple People Injured in Shooting at Des Moines Post Office – Female Suspect Taken Into Custody”
- The Independent (2 wordings): “Multiple people injured after mass shooting in Iowa post office” → “Female postal employee opens fire at Iowa office injuring three”
📰 Every outlet's headline 15left to right by AllSides rating
- CBS News🕒 Nov 5, 1 PM ET
3 injured in shooting at Des Moines, Iowa, post office
- CNN🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
3 hospitalized and suspect in custody after shooting at Des Moines post office, police say
- PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 5, 2 PM ET
3 people injured in Iowa post office shooting
- The Independent🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
Multiple people injured after mass shooting in Iowa post office
- Chicago Tribune🕒 Nov 5, 1 PM ET
Postal employee shot 2 coworkers at an Iowa post office before being captured, police say
- News Nation🕒 Nov 5, 11 AM ET
Multiple injured, suspect detained in Iowa post office shooting: Report
- Scripps News🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
3 people have been injured in a shooting at an Iowa post office
- Breitbart🕒 Nov 5, 1 PM ET
At Least 3 Injured, Suspect Detained in Des Moines Post Office Shooting
- Fox News🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
3 injured in shooting at Des Moines, Iowa post office, suspect detained: Police
- IJR🕒 Nov 5, 2 PM ET
Suspect Detained After Shooting at Des Moines Post Office
- New York Post🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
Multiple people injured in shooting at Des Moines post office
- Newsmax🕒 Nov 5, 1 PM ET
3 Injured in Shooting at Iowa Post Office
- The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
Gunman Opens Fire At Iowa Post Office
- The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
DEVELOPING: Multiple People Injured in Shooting at Des Moines Post Office
- The National Desk🕒 Nov 5, 1 PM ET
At least 3 people hurt in shooting at US Postal Service facility in Iowa: authorities
📡 Broadcast
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
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🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.