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by sangnoir 536 days ago
What journalism? I'm talking about how we frame the discussion on HN in threads like this one.
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Same point. Framing = “think about things this way” instead of just pointing out facts and letting people decide what they will.

Why do you think the president-elect is who they are? People don’t like whatever “framing” is supposed to be.

> Why do you think the president-elect is who they are? People don’t like whatever “framing” is supposed to be.

Isn't it the opposite? People see the same facts but framed in different ways, and so take away very different interpretations.

People see “framed” facts hammed down their gullet for so long, accept this, be ok with that, this is the new normal even if it’s only “because we say so”, that when an other option is presented, and one isn’t ordered to “accept this because…” it resonates.

Surely you realize this.

I hope you appreciate the irony of your white-hot rage against framing, and the contrast of you saying:

> this is the new normal even if it’s only “because we say so”, that when an other option is presented, and one isn’t ordered to “accept this because…” it resonates.

> Surely you realize this.

Why aren't you just stating the facts and letting parent decide? I don't think you are against providing relevant context (i.e. "framing"), you just have a bee in a bonnet about ... something - journalism as practiced today perhaps, but that has very little to to with the topic at thr root if the thread - until you reframed the discussion to be about journalism.

Naw, I’m not mad at all. Sorry I came off that way.

I must have made my point poorly, sorry I wasted your time.