This has always been one of my pet peeves about so-called "objective" political reporting. They smuggle so much editorializing into their straight news stories! As you note, the frame changes how the audience will receive the story. They know this but pretend not to have opinions about the topics they cover.
This has always been one of my pet peeves about so-called "objective" political reporting. They smuggle so much editorializing into their straight news stories! As you note, the frame changes how the audience will receive the story. They know this but pretend not to have opinions about the topics they cover.
One blatant example is the media’s obsessive coverage of inflation and giving the impression that it was Biden’s fault instead of informing people that every country had inflation as bad or worse. (Maybe Biden has superpowers a la Dark Brandon?) During that time period the US experienced strong economic growth and an impressive job market, which was not the case for other advanced countries. That was because they did not spend on economic investment programs like Biden did.
When the World Bank recently upgraded its prediction for global growth it specifically cited the fact that the US economy is so strong it is fueling the world economy — an amazing fact — most of the mainstream media either didn’t report the story or buried in it back pages. The Times did not post it in a prominent place and the headline about the strong US economy ended with a “but….”
Clearly the media is deliberately doing all they can to ignore or downplay the fact that the US economy under Biden has become the envy of the world. When poll after poll shows that people mistakenly think that the economy is bad or even in a recession, the media doesn’t blame themselves. Instead they falsely claim that people are judging based on their personal experiences and struggles with inflation. They know that poll after poll has shown that the majority of people say their own financial situations are good as is the economy in their city and their state but that the national economy is terrible. Clearly those people are not getting that impression from their personal situations and journalists have to know that but are choosing to be dishonest rather than admit their culpability in misleading the public on a critical issue.
This has always been one of my pet peeves about so-called "objective" political reporting. They smuggle so much editorializing into their straight news stories! As you note, the frame changes how the audience will receive the story. They know this but pretend not to have opinions about the topics they cover.
One blatant example is the media’s obsessive coverage of inflation and giving the impression that it was Biden’s fault instead of informing people that every country had inflation as bad or worse. (Maybe Biden has superpowers a la Dark Brandon?) During that time period the US experienced strong economic growth and an impressive job market, which was not the case for other advanced countries. That was because they did not spend on economic investment programs like Biden did.
When the World Bank recently upgraded its prediction for global growth it specifically cited the fact that the US economy is so strong it is fueling the world economy — an amazing fact — most of the mainstream media either didn’t report the story or buried in it back pages. The Times did not post it in a prominent place and the headline about the strong US economy ended with a “but….”
Clearly the media is deliberately doing all they can to ignore or downplay the fact that the US economy under Biden has become the envy of the world. When poll after poll shows that people mistakenly think that the economy is bad or even in a recession, the media doesn’t blame themselves. Instead they falsely claim that people are judging based on their personal experiences and struggles with inflation. They know that poll after poll has shown that the majority of people say their own financial situations are good as is the economy in their city and their state but that the national economy is terrible. Clearly those people are not getting that impression from their personal situations and journalists have to know that but are choosing to be dishonest rather than admit their culpability in misleading the public on a critical issue.