Last week I noted the use of the “social progress” frame as articulated by Michael J. Fox in campaign commercials running this election season (go here and here.) Dems are […]
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For his documentary Root of All Evil?, Richard Dawkins was granted inside access to Ted Haggard’s Colorado Springs mega-church, and he sits down for an interview with Haggard. “This place […]
Buzz is building for Mel Gibson’s Dec. 8 release of Apocalypto[trailer]. The film’s actual plot is still a bit of a secret. Judging by the title and the focus on […]
An unlikely coalition of environmental groups and Evangelical associations are promoting the new documentary “The Great Warming,” which defines the issue in terms of a moral duty to future generations […]
Genetech is running ads in the NY Times, The New Yorker, and on their Web site that feature patients offering testimonials framed in social progress terms. The campaign is similar […]
Readers of FRAMING SCIENCE who work in downtown DC or on Capitol Hill may want to take an extended lunch break tomorrow to check out this American Meteorological Society briefing […]
Last weekend, I was at the annual meetings of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, where I met up with longtime collaborators Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard. Along with […]
A few readers have written in to ask whether tomorrow’s AMS presentation will be recorded. My answer is “I don’t know,” but I will let everyone know if and when […]
For readers who are interested in learning more about the communication battles over science policy, I gave the following talk to the American Institute of Biological Sciences back in May, […]
News outlets and the blogosphere are abuzz over Bill Clinton’s appearance on Fox News Sunday. The whole episode is a classic example of how the negotiation of news between journalists […]
Chris Wallace has this to say about the ground rules agreed to by Fox News and Clinton….
If it isn’t already obvious, the GOP game plan for the November election is to make September 11 and the war on terror the dominant consideration for voters, rather than […]
Yesterday, Senator James Inhofe, Chair of the Committee on Public Works & the Environment, issued a challenge to journalists to stop what he called the “media hype” over global warming. […]
Just to show you how out of touch Inhofe and his staff are in their attack on the media, they even label as alarmist Andrew Revkin of the NY Times. […]
As Inhofe attacks the media for exaggerating the threat of global warming, the GOP continues to pursue its election strategy of making terrorism and the memory of 9/11 the defining […]
Email list servs and blogs aren’t the only things buzzing about the new documentary ‘Jesus Camp,’ (trailer) which opens in major cities this weekend, including here in D.C. The news […]
Everyone here in D.C. is talking about Bob Woodward’s State of Denial, as the book’s insider accounts continue to dominate the news cycle this week. Woodward’s impact offers a leading […]
Last week, the online news section of the Columbia Journalism Review ran this very useful reaction to Senator Inhofe’s attack on journalists covering global warming, referencing the analysis posted here.
Lanny Davis, former White House counsel under Clinton, veteran of the Monica Lewinsky wars, and a recognized expert on crisis communication was on NPR this morning, offering some very valuable […]
Following Pope Benedict’s late August seminar on evolution, the consensus view from Science magazine and intelligent design watchdogs appeared to be that the Vatican was not yet ready to endorse […]
For those in the DC area, tomorrow I will be giving the following presentation at AAAS HQ as part of the Science Policy Alliance speaker series. Breakfast is at 730 […]
Turn out at this morning’s presentation at AAAS approached 200, and it looked like the auditorium was completely full. It’s a sign that interest in framing as a public engagement […]
YouTube is quickly emerging as a new tool for strategic communication. Uses include promoting documentaries by posting trailers and news clips (see this post on Jesus Camp), reaching bigger audiences […]
You know you have reached a new ethical low in advertising when 9/11 is now fair game for selling commercial products, much less pickup trucks.But for those who haven’t caught […]
As usual, global warming is no where close to being a major topic of debate in the upcoming election, despite the fact that 2006 will be a historic high in […]
Last week, I detailed the growing use of YouTube as a strategic communication tool. Now, in today’s Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, and in other papers across the country, there […]
How do you communicate the underlying meaning and values of a political party with a single word or phrase? Republicans have boiled it down to “national security, tax relief, and […]
I have been meaning to type up a brief summary of last week’s talk at AAAS HQ here in DC. The presentation packed the auditorium with a crowd of about […]
It’s been a long and very busy week on campus, with several major articles in the works, and midterm grading in full swing. Yet I had to weigh in briefly […]
Gallup has released poll findings indicating that 58% of the public disagrees with the Bush veto decision. This finding is not surprising, since it closely parallels the level of public […]