Marty Kaplan: The Narrative Narrative

To the press, all the world’s a stage. Or rather, all the world’s an onstage and a backstage. Candidates don’t have beliefs; they have positions. Campaigns don’t have meanings; they have narratives. In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn’t to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn’t to find truth, but to disclose “framing.”

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