The weekend in the actual war: on Saturday the US military struck three Iranian oil tankers, and on Sunday the speaker of Iran's parliament announced that 'the era of proportionate responses is over,' promising something 'more intense and more painful.' Now here's the Iran coverage on Fox News' homepage as of Sunday evening: Netanyahu threatening a 'blow beyond anything it can imagine.' A process story about Iraqi militias. And the Treasury Secretary predicting cheap gas. * That last one deserves its own frame: 'Bessent predicts oil prices could drop as low as 0 after Iran conflict ends and supply floods market.' Read the clause doing the quiet work — 'after Iran conflict ends.' The ending comes pre-installed. The same morning Tehran was announcing escalation, Fox's headline had already skipped to the epilogue, where the war's main output is a discount at the pump. * The quote itself, delivered on 'My View with Lara Trump' — yes, that Lara Trump — is a small masterpiece of genre transposition: 'On the other side of this, we actually could see oil prices 0 or 0 because there's so much supply coming on. It's just constricted right now.' A shooting war with a regional power, described in the vocabulary of a supply-chain hiccup. Constricted. Like the Strait of Hormuz is a kinked garden hose. * Notice also what word keeps not appearing. On Thursday the vice president said 'I wouldn't call it a war.' On Friday the president called it 'small potatoes.' By the weekend, Fox's furniture had fallen in line: it's the 'Iran conflict' in the headlines, a thing that 'ends,' on whose 'other side' the barrels flow. When the White House issues a style guide, most newsrooms debate it. This one typesets it. * For the record, the thing being renamed: eighteen American service members have been killed in this war since February, and roughly 480 more have been wounded, per the Pentagon's own casualty numbers. Fox knows exactly how much coverage dead American troops warrant — in August 2021 it ran wall-to-wall live updates when thirteen were killed at Kabul airport, the deadliest day for US forces in a decade, and it was right to. Same network. Same uniform. Different president. * Elsewhere on the list, nobody's filing this under markets. The New York Times fronted 'Iran's Attacks Keep the Strait of Hormuz in a Lethal Stalemate' — stalemate, lethal, a war that exists in the present tense. CNN led with the strikes themselves. You don't have to love either frame to notice both papers think the story is the war, not the futures curve. * Every outlet decides what a war is about. Fox's homepage has decided this one is about what things will cost once it's over — a question that skips politely past the people paying for it now, in the only currency that doesn't come back down to 0.