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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 1.0 point. Most headlines — from CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and Sky News — used neutral, factual language to describe rising profits, employing phrases like "hit all-time highs," "profits soar," and "profits hit 18-year high" without ideological loading. The modest exception was the New York Times, whose headline — "U.S. Oil Industry Earned Over $130 Billion in Profit During Iran War" — carried a subtle implicit critique absent from the others. The word "earned" paired with a large dollar figure and direct linkage to a war context frames the profits as an excessive gain from conflict, rather than simply a market outcome. Even so, this framing difference is minor, and no headline at the other end of the scale employed notably pro-industry language to counterbalance it.