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🗞️ Story file #510

Houthis attack Saudi airports and oil facilities

Oct 15, 9 AM ET to Oct 15, 8 PM ET

👣 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 15, 11 AM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
  2. Oct 15, 11 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 15, 9 AM to Oct 15, 8 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 14, 12 PM6 PMOct 156 AM12 PM6 PMWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 13, 10:02 AM ET: Houthis vow ‘swift and painful’ retaliation if US strikes Yemen after Trump condemns attacksBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 13, 12:02 PM ET: Bombs Fly over Riyadh as Houthi Assault on Saudi Arabia ContinuesAPAPAP, Oct 14, 7:02 AM ET: Residents in Saudi Arabia’s capital hear new explosions as Houthis claim more attacksReutersReutersReuters, Oct 14, 8:02 AM ET: Saudi Aramco headquarters suffered extensive damage in Houthi attack, sources sayReuters, Oct 14, 9:02 AM ET: Yemen's Houthis vow more attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities after Aramco HQ hit - ReutersBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 14, 9:02 AM ET: Aramco Headquarters Hit as Houthis Widen Saudi AttacksNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 14, 8:02 PM ET: Houthis Escalate Saudi Attacks, Vow More Hits Despite Trump Warning📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 15, 11:10 AM ET: story 3 of 5
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.

💬 quoted: “ignore” “swift and painful” “unprecedented.”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Reuters (2 wordings): “Saudi Aramco headquarters suffered extensive damage in Houthi attack, sources say” → “Yemen's Houthis vow more attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities after Aramco HQ hit - Reuters”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📻 On the radio

  • NPR News Now, Oct 15, 11:10 AM ET: story 3 of 5

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Young Turks

🧶 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: Houthis Saudi Arabia Riyadh Donald Trump Houthi

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧵 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

    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 (this story)

    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