Framing: An introduction

Any news piece will have a frame - the application of an ideology, the way the news provider wants you to experience this story. Part of my class is learning how to identify these frames and to see beyond them. We are told to look for the clues, what's hidden in the words that the writer or editor wants you to take away. Look for the selection context, who gets speaking time, who gets the most speaking time, who doesn't get any speaking time. What do they say? What are the causes, as this frame depicts? On whom do the responsibilities fall? What are possible solutions, resolutions?

Then, we can examine what we learn about the media source, about people, about the world, and about resolving the issues through picking apart that frame.