Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action

🗞️ Story file #960

Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action

Oct 26, 8 AM ET to Oct 27, 1 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast
4 of 4parts of a saga

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Oct 26, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
Oct 26, 1 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 26, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 8 AM to Oct 27, 1 AM 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: “Do I Make a Deal or Finish Them Off?” 3 “finish it off” 2 “Leaning Toward” “Deal with Iran or Finish Them Off?” 3 “make a deal”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “Trump: ‘Deal with Iran or Finish Them Off?’ — U.S. Readies Strike Options” → “…Trump on Iran: ‘Do I Make a Deal or Finish Them Off?’”

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