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WordPress doesn’t generate a very sophisticated site map, unfortunately, so all I can offer here is a full list of blog posts and static pages, followed by a list of categories. Additionally, the right-hand sidebar has a drop-down “archive” list which divides posts by month, and a search box for searching this blog’s contents.

Static pages:

News Frames blog posts, newest first:

• 2025 updates – £0.77 book & new article on metaphor
• December 2023 updates – essential reading
• New book on framing (2023)
• Algorithm politics & framing
• “Whataboutism”
• Attn: Wage Slaves! (book review)
• Announcing new RAW blog
• Media distancing – word as virus
• The strange case of Glenn Greenwald
• Behaviour modification empires for rent
• “Weaponised” political framing – do you really know which side you’re on?
• The “alt-left” – what my Independent article left out
• Populist right – the mass appeal of “strict father” framing
• Facts, frames & “post-truth” politics
• Frames-based autopsy of Trump/Brexit calamities
• UPDATES – Overweening Generalist, ‘Degrowth’, RAW, ‘ego depletion’
• RAW: new article for Disinfo
• Media criticism – the state it’s in
• Robert Anton Wilson & framing – a few notes
• Lakoff on “growth” & “degrowth” frames
• Glenn Greenwald’s generalisation on “British journalists”
• Top 3 nonsensical frames of the Corbyn debate
• Nafeez Ahmed’s smear piece on IBC – part 2
• Nafeez Ahmed’s smear piece on IBC – part 1
• Conservative framing of welfare
• “Degrowth” – a problematic economic frame
• Identity politics, “trolls” & anonymity
• Antiwork – a modest proposal
• Tabloid stereotypes – typifying classes by worst-cases
• The economic “growth” frame – and its opposition
• Moral outrage on tap
• Lazy Person’s Guide to Framing
• Framing vs “Orwellian language”
• “News” as story – not facts
• Lakoff in Guardian
• Anti-news (or “assorted gibberish”)
• Letters to the editor
• Hating the “right” group
• Government “hits” BBC
• “The young lack grit”
• Žižek on Lakoff
• Framing poll questions & results
• Establishment TV – BBC’s “authority” frame
• Endless “austerity” framing
• Media-free zones – avoiding toxic “news”
• A Daily Mail front page you won’t see…
• Inductive Reasoning & Being Wrong
• Curious repeating headlines in the Daily Express
• Poverty framing – discussion with JRF’s Chris Goulden
• Living wage slavery
• “Lesser of two evils”
• The ever-popular “war on workshy” frame
• Medialens’s “polite” smear campaign
• “Radical” memes & “radical” churnalism
• Essentials of framing (merged version)
• The “Moral Licensing” effect
• A Tale of Two Racisms
• Misconceptions about framing
• Framing for “radicals”
• “Willpower depletion” & you
• Framing, distraction & “willpower”
• ‘Moral decay’ & other fun metaphors
• Essentials of framing – Part 2
• Essentials of framing – Part 1
• Anxiety-inducing frames
• Media on Racism: Part 2 – Framing
• Media on Racism: Part 1 – Churnalism
• Welfare “criminals”
• If you see just ONE graph this decade…
• Frank Luntz reframes Occupy
• STRIKE! Work framed as Obedience
• Daily Mail lies about strikes
• Framing Occupy’s “demands”
• “Financial Crisis” & Media Compartmentalising
• The “Financial Collapse” & framing
• “Officials say…” – The Guardian’s idea of journalism
• “News” = recycled clichés
• How not to frame “workers”
• TaxPayers’ Alliance deletes “transparency” comments
• Media metaphor & “bias”
• NHS “crimes” (starring PFI & TaxPayers’ Alliance)
• Alternative economic framing
• “Human rights” framing
• “Benefit tourists”
• Ruled by metaphor
• “Bad businesses” – reframing wealth-creation?
• Daily Mail does “God”
• Stupid economic metaphors
• Two kinds of moral framing
• Contested concepts in the news
• “Consumers too lazy”
• The News – created by TaxPayers’ Alliance
• “Family life in crisis”
• Conservative framing of welfare
• Live longer = work longer?
• Banks get £46bn hand-out
• The new “unconscious” (part 2)
• “Feral underclass”
• Pressure group sets UK “news” (part 2)
• Pressure group sets UK “news”
• “Scrounging families”
• The new “unconscious” (part 1)
• How “work” is framed
• If the headline is big enough…
• “War” on “scroungers”
• PFI “rip-off”
• “Business groups” / “red tape”
• “State fat cats”
• Private vs public sector
• History of “moral decline”
• “Mansion tax”
• “Stealing” jobs

News Frames categories:

• ‘cognitive unconscious’ (3)
• Austerity (1)
• Authorities (2)
• Bankers (4)
• BBC (8)
• Churnalism (4)
• Crime reporting (3)
• Daily Mail (15)
• Demonology (1)
• Economics (6)
• Express (10)
• Fearmongering (10)
• Frame semantics (38)
• Frank Luntz (2)
• George Lakoff (1)
• Guardian (10)
• Headlines (18)
• I (Independent) (4)
• Independent (4)
• Inductive reasoning (1)
• Information anxiety (1)
• Iraq (2)
• Jobs (15)
• Letters (1)
• Local press (1)
• Medialens (1)
• Metaphor (22)
• Mirror (3)
• Moral politics (17)
• Newsnight (1)
• Observer (2)
• Occupy (3)
• PFI (1)
• Polls (1)
• Populism (1)
• Poverty (1)
• Private vs public sector (6)
• Racism (4)
• Rights (1)
• Rip-offs (2)
• Smears (1)
• Taxpayers’ Alliance (5)
• Telegraph (13)
• The Sun (1)
• Think tanks (3)
• Times (7)
• Voting (1)
• War (3)
• welfare (6)
• Willpower (3)
• Zizek (1)