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Re:Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran by roywiggins on Sunday March 08, 2026 @12:48AM (#47294839)
No, it didn't take several days for reporting to show up in major media:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l7rvqq51eo

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Re:Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran by readitalready on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:05AM (#47294949)
Yah that was never on their front pages or on their apps, probably hidden on an archival web page. I looked everywhere. Only found the story in a few places on Feb 28, the day it happened.

This is how they hide stories.

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Re:Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran by roywiggins on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:16AM (#47295007)
It was on the BBC front page by March 2nd, two days after it happened, probably less than 48 hours.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260302041747/https://www.bbc.c...

The NYT had coverage the day of.

https://archive.ph/CdT2X

You can see it on the front page in their "Live" coverage at the time:

https://archive.ph/sYqKl

I do think it was probably relatively underplayed in Western press, you can eg see it on the front page day-of pretty prominently on Al Jazeera:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260228182044/https://www.aljaz...

But the western press dragging their feet at covering victims of America's foreign wars is not down to being pro-Israel, no.

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