๐๏ธ Story file #1266
Oil prices fall on hopes for US-Iran diplomatic talks
Nov 2, 1 PM ET to Nov 3, 10 PM ET
- 10outlets carried it
- ๐ซ4 ยท 3 ยท 3๐left ยท center ยท right
- 1.4 dayson the front pages
- 10front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
- 16 of 28parts of a saga
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๐ฃ 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.
- Nov 2, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
- Nov 2, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Nov 2, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 2, 5 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
๐ฐ Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
๐ Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
โ๏ธ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CNBC (2 wordings): โCrude oil prices sell off more than 7% on Iran peace talk hopes ahead of U.S. midtermsโ โ โCrude oil prices fall for second day as market hopes for diplomatic resolution to Iran warโ
- Semafor (2 wordings): โOil prices down on hopes of Gulf talks progressโ โ โOil prices fall on US-Iran negotiationsโ
๐ฐ Every outlet's headline 10left to right by AllSides rating
- The Guardian๐ Nov 2, 12 PM ET
Oil price falls amid hope of a breakthrough to end Iran war
- CNBC๐ Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Crude oil prices sell off more than 7% on Iran peace talk hopes ahead of U.S. midterms
- NBC News๐ Nov 2, 5 PM ET
Oil prices slide in biggest drop since July on hope for more Iran talks
- Semafor๐ Nov 2, 7 AM ET
Oil prices down on hopes of Gulf talks progress
- Bloomberg๐ Nov 2, 2 PM ET
US Natural Gas Falls With Oil as Hope for Iran Talks Reemerges
- Financial Times๐ Nov 2, 11 AM ET Oil tumbles on hopes for US-Iran talks
- Reuters๐ Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Oil drops 7% as Iran signals openness to peace talks
- The American Conservative๐ Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Iran War Day 248: Oil Prices Fall on Diplomatic Hopes
- The Epoch Times๐ Nov 2, 1 PM ET
US Oil Prices Fall More Than 7 Percent on Iran Peace Talks
- The Daily Caller๐ Nov 2, 2 PM ET
US Oil Plunges Below $100 On Hopes Of Iran Peace Deal
๐ก Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- leans left
- center
- right
๐บ On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
๐ป On the radio
hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order
๐๏ธ On the shows
podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation
๐ต๏ธ Investigated, joked about
๐ต๏ธ investigative reporting on it and ๐ satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces
๐ต๏ธ๐คท No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
๐งถ Retelling
what people online made of it
๐ฆ Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
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๐ Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
๐ง No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
๐งต Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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