framing fuck-ups
No, no, wait - no don't - don't do it--
"Are Democrats Soft on Terror?"
...ahh, maaan...okay. The rest of that article could be a recipe for turning post-it notes into silver dollars; it makes no difference, because the frame's already in place. To reject a frame - or write a puffy piece posing that said frame is flawed - is to accept that frame.
Not only does the piece reject/accept the frame, it does so using the very talking point it attempts to dismiss. The author could've titled it, "Are Democrats Monstrous Pedophiles?" for all the good it does in getting her point across.
To coin a phrase, less like this please.
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