“Sources Say”: What Do We Really Know About the U.S. Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites?
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Depending on your source, the United States either obliterated Iran’s nuclear program – or set it back by just a few weeks. So how do you make sense of headlines like these? Step into the editorial room with me as we unpack how SmartHER News covers stories and sources. We’ll break down the day's top story, explore the media’s use of anonymous reporting and share why this story matters more than it may seem. Plus ~ the key questions no one’s asking (but should).
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| 0:00.0 | Depending on your source, America has either obliterated Iran's nuclear program or just set it back a few weeks. |
| 0:08.6 | What are you to think when you see these sort of news stories? |
| 0:12.9 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:13.8 | Step into my editorial meeting. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News. is smarter news. |
| 0:25.5 | Well, hi, everybody. |
| 0:30.3 | I didn't expect to jump on today, but I got a really interesting question from a member of my team on how we were going to approach a top story of the day. |
| 0:35.7 | And it was her suggestion that got me in front of the microphone |
| 0:39.0 | and in front of you to talk a little bit more about our editorial decisions regarding |
| 0:44.5 | some of the stories that we have in front of us today. So let me just give you a little bit of a |
| 0:48.7 | background to this. One of the things I talk about Smarter News is we want to be solid, quick, |
| 0:56.6 | concise, nonpartisan news in a day and age when most of the news is really junk food for the |
| 1:03.0 | mind. That's a term I've used over the last couple of years. It's just filled with junk food for |
| 1:07.5 | the mind, meaning that there's a lot of tasty things out there that people |
| 1:11.2 | want a little bit of a part of, but it's very low on substance. And we can talk more about this in the |
| 1:16.1 | future. Part of the reason for all the junk food in front of us, all the clutter is that the |
| 1:20.4 | business model of news is really built upon that. So the more content, even when it's not very |
| 1:25.8 | substantial or nutritious for you, is still going to be put in |
| 1:28.8 | front of you. And because often it's the sweetest, easiest things to access, this is what seems |
| 1:35.7 | to just absorb the news space. And that's what we want to do at Smarter News is be an antidote to that. |
| 1:40.9 | We want to make sure you can come to us for just the best stuff and then get on |
| 1:45.3 | with your day because I actually don't want you to be stuck in a 24-hour news cycle. I want you |
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