🗞️ Story file #891
Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions
Oct 23, 7 PM ET to Oct 24, 12 PM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 17 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
- 19people retold it online
- 1 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 23, 7 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 24, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 24, 8 AM ETretold online by 19 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CNBC (2 wordings): “Brent crude oil tops $116, a six-month high, as Middle East tensions swell” → “Brent crude oil tops $116, a six-month high, as tensions swell in the Middle East”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
The Bulwark
Oil Prices Spike to $117 Over Fear of Iran War Escalation Oct 23, 2 PM ET
The Guardian
Oil price rises above $117 a barrel amid fears US will renew strikes on Iran Oct 23, 1 PM ET
CNBC
Brent crude oil tops $116, a six-month high, as Middle East tensions swell Oct 23, 11 AM ET
New York Times
Global Oil Price Hits $116 a Barrel, Highest Since April Oct 23, 5 PM ET- Financial Times Oil hits $117 for first time since April on fears of flare-up in Iran hostilities Oct 23, 1 PM ET
New York Post
Brent crude oil futures jumped 2.7% to $116.26 a barrel – their highest level since early May and on track for a weekly rise of more than 10%. Oct 23, 11 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Oil prices reach six-month high over Iran tensions BBC News, 86 s
- NEW UNCERTAINTY IN MIDDLE EAST FORCES OIL PRICES UP CNN, 11 s
- OIL PRICES JUMP AMID MIDDLE EAST UNCERTAINTY CNN, 9 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- The Houthis claim to have attacked Saudi oil facilities and airports while denying attacks on Mecca and Medina. Oct 25: told by 8 people (same issue); told before on Oct 26
🧩 Missile at Mecca - Oil prices are spiking due to fears of escalating conflict in the Middle East and potential war with Iran. Oct 24: told by 11 people; told before on Oct 12
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On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Brent crude oil Middle East Iran Global
🔎 Checking
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🧵 Persistence
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🧵 Trump's Iran War Profits
Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions (this story)
Oct 23, 7 PM ET
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Oct 26, 11 AM ET