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🗞️ Story file #325

Houthi rebels strike Saudi airport; Trump considers U.S. involvement

Oct 10, 6 PM ET to Oct 10, 11 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 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 10, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 10, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Oct 10, 10 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
  4. Oct 10, 10 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 10, 7 PM8 PM9 PM10 PM11 PM47leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 10, 6 PM to Oct 10, 11 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 10, 4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PMFortuneFortuneFortune, Oct 10, 3:02 PM ET: Trump says he’s evaluating whether the U.S. should join Saudi Arabia’s fight against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after fresh attacks on RiyadhRed StateRed StateRed State, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: Houthi Missile Hits Major Saudi Airport, With Many Casualties; Trump Weighs in on Possible US Action Nick AramaNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: Iran-backed Houthis strike international airport in Saudi Arabia, as Trump sends warning after attackRFE/RLRadio Free Europe Radio LibertyRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: LIVE Trump May Join Saudis' Fight Against Houthis After 12 Killed In Airport AttackCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: After airport strike, Trump considering whether to join fight against HouthisAPAPAP, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: Trump weighs joining the fight against Houthis after Saudi capital’s airport is struck againHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Weighs Joining The Fight Against Houthis After Saudi Capital’s Airport Is Struck Again📺 TVBBC News, 8:01 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:02 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:02 PM ET: Trump: Will 'look' at joining Saudi fight against HouthisBBC News, 8:03 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:03 PM ET: Trump: Will 'look' at joining Saudi fight against HouthisBBC News, 8:04 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:05 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:06 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:06 PM ET: Trump: Will 'look' at joining Saudi fight against HouthisBBC News, 8:07 PM ET: Trump: Will 'look' at joining Saudi fight against HouthisBBC News, 8:07 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 8:25 PM ET: Saudi says Houthis behind airport attackBBC News, 9:05 PM ET: Trump weighs US response to Houthi strikes on Saudi ArabiaBBC News, 9:06 PM ET: Trump weighs US response to Houthi strikes on Saudi ArabiaBBC News, 10:02 PM ET: Trump: Will 'look' at joining Saudi fight against Houthis📻 radioABC News Update, Oct 10, 11:32 PM ET: story 2 of 2ABC News Update, Oct 10, 10:32 PM ET: story 2 of 2
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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

💬 quoted: “May”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 weighs joining 🫏 riyadh airport 🫏 saudi capital's airport

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News9 min
  • Saudi says Houthis behind airport attack BBC News, 4 min
  • Trump: Will 'look' at joining Saudi fight against Houthis BBC News, 3 min
  • Trump weighs US response to Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia BBC News, 2 min

📻 On the radio

  • ABC News Update, Oct 10, 11:32 PM ET: story 2 of 2
  • ABC News Update, Oct 10, 10:32 PM ET: story 2 of 2

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📨 Erick Erickson 🎙️ Bloomberg News Now

🧶 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: Saudi Arabia Yemen Iran Houthis Donald Trump

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

  1. Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb Strait

    Oct 5, 3 PM ET

  2. Houthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh

    Oct 4, 2 PM ET

  3. Houthi rebels strike Saudi airport; Trump considers U.S. involvement (this story)

    Oct 10, 6 PM ET

  4. Delta delays Saudi flights after Riyadh airport attacks

    Oct 13, 4 PM ET

  5. Trump warns Houthis over saudi attacks

    Oct 14, 12 AM ET

  6. Saudi airport closure extended after Houthi strikes

    Oct 14, 7 AM ET

  7. Houthis attack Saudi airports and oil facilities

    Oct 15, 9 AM ET

  8. Saudi Arabia launches new strikes against Houthi targets

    Oct 15, 8 PM ET

  9. Houthi attacks continue despite Saudi military efforts

    Oct 15, 6 AM ET

  10. Houthi missiles strike Yemeni presidential palace, killing two

    Oct 4, 11 AM ET