The Frame Game

Democrats and Republicans both have recently been reinforcing the frame of “coddling terrorists” as the thing you do when you don’t support the Bush administration’s policies on warrantless wiretapping, rights of prisoners, and foreign relations in general. Dictionary definitions for “coddle” include: “to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper,” and “to treat with extreme [...]

Well, don’t they?

We all play the frame game. We play it because words have meaning, and whether we’re evoking frames or having frames used to push, pull or steer us in a particular direction, they’re always at work in our lives. The Frame Game weblog is a chronicle of the frames at work in the [...]