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News Frames is a UK site on media framing »

Book:

Lazy Person’s Guide to Framing – available on Kindle at Amazon. Reached #2 Amazon bestseller rating in ‘Propaganda & Spin’ category.

Latest blog posts:

Media distancing – word as virus (New)

The strange case of Glenn Greenwald – part 1

Behaviour modification empires for rent

Other recent posts:

♦ “Weaponised” political framing
♦ Frames-based autopsy of Trump/Brexit calamities
♦ Wereldwijd 297 magazine (Interview with me)
♦ Framing vs “Orwellian language”

Framing: idiots’ guides

Many people (some journalists included) have the misinformed notion that framing is primarily about “spin” or persuasion (marketing/PR). But frames aren’t about “superficial wordplay”; they’re how and why we think “along the lines” we do. I wrote the following to correct some of the common misconceptions:

• Framing: A Short Primer – Brief intro. The very least that you should know.
• Essentials of framing – On George Lakoff’s ‘moral politics’ frames.
• The Metaphor is the Message – Frames involve conceptual metaphor.
• The Cognitive Unconscious – Our use of frames is mostly unconscious, automatic.

“News” & political framing

Here are some examples from this site on how framing may be applied to political and media issues:

• “Benefit tourists”
• How not to frame “workers”
• Endless “austerity” framing
• Iraq War Framing for Dummies
• “Human rights” framing
• “Flatlined” economy

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