Jordan arrests three men over deadly church attack

🗞️ Story file #959

Jordan arrests three men over deadly church attack

Oct 26, 7 AM ET to Oct 27, 4 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏3 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
1.4 dayson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
22 sof TV captions
2 of 2parts 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, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 26, 11 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 27, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 7 AM to Oct 27, 4 PM 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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “fierce”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Jordan arrests 3 church shooting suspects after 'fierce' firefight” → “Jordan arrests 3 church shooting suspects”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Jordan arrests three suspects over deadly church attack after shootout, state media says” → “Jordan arrests three relatives over deadly church attack after shootout, officials say”

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

ABC News Jordan arrests 3 church shooting suspects after 'fierce' firefight Oct 26, 7 AM ET
AP Jordanian security forces arrest 3 men over last week’s deadly church attack Oct 26, 6 AM ET
CBS News Jordan says 3 arrested in deadly attack on Greek Orthodox church Oct 26, 4 AM ET
BBC Jordan arrests three men suspected of deadly church attack after shootout Oct 26, 8 AM ET
Reuters Jordan arrests three suspects over deadly church attack after shootout, state media says Oct 26, 7 AM ET
IJR Jordan arrests three after church attack kills nine Oct 26, 5 AM ET
New York Post Three arrested after Jordan church shooting that killed 9 as violence continues Oct 26, 11 AM ET
Newsmax Jordanian Security Forces Say They've Arrested Three Men Responsible for Deadly Attack on a Church Oct 26, 2 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News22 s

CHRISTIANS FACING ATTACKS IN MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA Fox News, 22 s

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: Jordan Jordanian Security Forces Greek Orthodox Church Jordanian government Three men Jordanian security forces

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Jordan church attack

Gunmen attack church funeral in Jordan, killing 7 and wounding 40
Oct 23, 10 AM ET
Jordan arrests three men over deadly church attack (this story)
Oct 26, 7 AM ET