Framing Obama -- by the WPost

[Christa]

An insidious power of a propagandistic newspaper – especially one with great influence – is how it can “frame” an issue so the assumptions behind a story guide the readers to a preordained conclusion under the guise of presenting a fair journalistic account.

As Barack Obama reaches the two-month anniversary of his presidency, he is facing such a problem from the powerful Washington Post, which is creating a negative “frame” for his administration.

The Post’s news pages have been filled with supposedly objective news stories that have portrayed Republican obstructionism not as the GOP’s determination to hobble Obama – much as the Republicans did to Bill Clinton in 1993-94 – but as Obama’s “failure” to achieve the bipartisanship he advocated during the campaign.

The Post and other leading news organizations also have suffered from a strange amnesia about the fact that today’s worldwide financial disaster has been in the making for many years and reached a crisis point in 2008 under the “self-regulatory” theories of President George W. Bush.

Instead of that context, the recession is portrayed as an Obama problem, with the Post and other news outlets even forgetting to mention in stories about the 6.2 percent drop in the gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of 2008 that the startling decline occurred under Bush, not Obama.

Full article:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/031909.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Interesting, but it really doesn't belong here in the ihateobama forum.

:P

[Christa]

2. Oh, c'mon

Let's educate the unwashed masses :smoke:


:think:



:pals:

[Jennicut]

3. Typical corporate media agenda

[GoCubsGo]

4. Yep. They claim they're "framing the issue"...

...when they're really trying to frame Obama for this huge shitmess, after cheerleading for the real culprits for the past decade.

[NJmaverick]

5. Thank you for posting this

being able to arm oneselves with the facts, can be quite useful.