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In reply to the discussion: Language is Everything. Framing impeachment [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)2. In the meantime (and beyond) framing the language is a big failure in the media. We MUST frame it.
The media incessantly says "to dig up dirt in an investigation". The framing presumes there was dirt, which would have to be proved to justify its usage that way.
The only justifiable kind of way to say it is "to create an investigation into alleged dirt". Only one side is alleging. Only one side would create (bogus) investigations. That there is an allegation is a fact. That there is a desire on one side to create an investigation is a fact. That there is dirt to dig up is not a fact.
Frame it that way.
Frame all the issues that way and the film will fall of the eyes of a lot of wobbly low-info types.
Call out anyone who tries to frame allegations by presuming them to be facts. Media, social media, friends, even family (but keep it - not personal).
P.S. "bribe a foreign official to interfere in American elections" is very defensible as a fact at this point, so a good way to counter-frame it.
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In the meantime (and beyond) framing the language is a big failure in the media. We MUST frame it.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#2
Sustained public pressure. Ltrs to ed, comments, boycotts, email to writers, lots of tools,
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#18
Those do work. The RW deploy those. Those techniques stole Elec College. Russia deploys those.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#23
No. The truth will out. Our goal is to out it in the short run. No, complexity is NOT the way to go.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#28
Only thing you have offered is "buy expensive media" and negativity to grass roots and framing.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#30
I agree that the framing so far has been both (1) innacurate and (2) ineffective in
Alithea
Nov 2019
#15
Yup. Extort foreign ally with tax dollars for benefit of adversary Russia. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#19
And following all that his action was to cover it up, justify it post facto, deny, delay, .... . .nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#5
George Kent:"You can't promote principled anti-corruption action without pissing-off corrupt people"
BuffaloJackalope
Nov 2019
#9
Start with, not fiction, not misspoken, but that Trump IS A LIAR, A CHEAT, A CON AND A RACIST!
RestoreAmerica2020
Nov 2019
#11