The whole framing thing is much more clear in my mind in the nuclear realm, maybe simply because I’ve spent a lot more of my journalistic career there. Over at the work blog, a Saturday morning musing on a current case in which a new project, the Department of Energy’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, is the subject of a fierce framing fight. This makes an interesting case study, because the issue is fresh, and therefore the stakes are high as both sides seek to frame the issue in the public mind.
So the true purpose of framing is to completely obfuscate what one is actually trying to do?