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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #348

Pentagon updates troop death toll in Iran war to 21

Oct 11, 8 PM ET to Oct 12, 5 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 11, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: Just the News
  2. Oct 11, 8 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 11, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  4. Oct 12, 3 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 11, 10 PMOct 122 AM4 AM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 11, 8 PM to Oct 12, 5 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 116 AM12 PM6 PMOct 12Raw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: Pentagon quietly raises troop death toll after Pete Hegseth called report β€˜a complete lie’MediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 10, 6:00 PM ET: Pentagon Quietly Raises Number of Troop Deaths in Iran β€” After Hegseth Slammed Reporting Questioning the Official Death Toll as β€˜DISGUSTING’New York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 10, 7:00 PM ET: Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran WarUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 10, 8:00 PM ET: Pentagon increases official count of troops who died during Iran warThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 11, 12:00 PM ET: Pentagon updates death toll of troops during Iran war to 21Just the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 11, 8:02 PM ET: Iran war death toll reaches 21, more than 860 woundedπŸ“Ί TVFox News, 10:51 PM ET: THE WAR IN IRANFox News, 10:52 PM ET: THE WAR IN IRANBBC News, 12:42 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansBBC News, 12:44 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansBBC News, 12:45 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansBBC News, 1:40 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansBBC News, 1:41 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansFox News, 1:51 AM ET: THE WAR IN IRANFox News, 1:52 AM ET: THE WAR IN IRANBBC News, 2:40 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansBBC News, 2:41 AM ET: Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plansπŸ“» radioNPR News Now, Oct 12, 3:09 AM ET: story 2 of 3
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“Œ linked by aggregators: Drudge Report

πŸ’¬ quoted: β€œa complete lie” β€œDISGUSTING”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

πŸ“Ί On TV

BBC News3 min
Fox News2 min
  • Warnings Iran war threatens UK Budget plans BBC News, 3 min
  • THE WAR IN IRAN Fox News, 2 min

πŸ“» On the radio

  • NPR News Now, Oct 12, 3:09 AM ET: story 2 of 3

πŸŽ™οΈ Shows, investigators, satire

πŸŽ™οΈ πŸ“Ί The Young Turks

🧢 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: Iran Pentagon Pete Hegseth

πŸ”Ž Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧡 Iran war casualties

  1. Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike report delayed medical care

    Oct 5, 1 PM ET

  2. Pentagon updates troop death toll in Iran war to 21 (this story)

    Oct 11, 8 PM ET