{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"CHECKED by HonestReporting","title":"Red, Blue, and Green: Midterm coverage, Tucker Carlson's nuclear tweet, and why RSF put HonestReporting on its predators list | With Justin Pozmanter | Nov 5, 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1866,"description":"CHECKED is HonestReporting's weekly live show. Every Thursday, Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman take apart the week's coverage of Israel. They look at what got reported, what got left out, and who decided.\n\nNovember 5, 2026:\nFront Page: The US midterm results are in, and so is the coverage. Justin Pozmanter, Director of HonestReporting's News Division, joins us to look at how Iranian officials, including parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, celebrated the result as a vote against the Iran war, and how Russian state media and parts of the Western press ran the same frame. Polling points to the economy and corruption, not Israel. We also look at Abdul El-Sayed's victory speech in Michigan, a Guardian column that waved off concerns about him as \"shawarma law,\" and why the press now has to treat the newly elected anti-Israel candidates as the powerful, not the outsiders.\n\nThe Feed: Tucker Carlson posted a 2,000-word tweet claiming the US is days from a nuclear strike on Iran, with Netanyahu pushing Trump every day. His source is one unnamed \"informed observer.\" Carlson's posts usually draw one to three million views. This one passed 90 million. We look at who helped it break containment, including CNN's Christiane Amanpour and Drop Site's Ryan Grim, and what's left once you strip out the nuclear claim: the old dual-loyalty libel in a new wrapper.\n\nOpen Cases: This week, the case is us. Earlier this year HonestReporting found that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) had quietly removed named Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members from its database of journalists killed in Gaza, with no public correction. Three of them were also named in war-crimes complaints RSF filed with the International Criminal Court, and there's no public sign those complaints were withdrawn. RSF's response: it put HonestReporting on its 2026 Press Freedom Predators list, next to Vladimir Putin, the Chinese Communist Party and Erdogan.\n\nHonest Mistake, or On Purpose? Two cases, one ruling...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nolzkKVjRLakOcoqAtrqZW20QEMKibgzA67D_ffomFU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zY2I5/ZjQ2ZmMwODgwYWJh/ODhmY2UyZTFlNmQ5/Y2Y2NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}