ABSTRACT
Journalists are framers. Within the journalistic news production process, one of the key decisions that every journalist needs to make time and again concerns what “aspects of a perceived reality” (Entman, 1993, p. 52) to foreground; what “connection among them” (Gamson & Modigliani, 1987, p. 143) to weave; and thus what meaning to provide “to an unfolding strip of events” (ibid.). Drawing upon frames offered to them by numerous sources, and transforming these into frames suitable for presentation in the news, journalists occupy a central place in the framing of public issues.
