The game frame

TV news analysts are typically fixated on politics as a game (who are the players? what is the strategy? who is winning/ losing?). The game frame pits parties and groups against one another in an artificially constructed battle that fails to engage with the underlying issue.

The game frame fools the public into feeling like it “totally knows what is going on” when in reality it only knows the soap opera of characters and strategy and none of the historical, economic, environmental, racial, or social context surrounding an actual issue.

Dr. Dana Young, DANNA'S EXPLAINER ON WHY PUNDIT (ANALYST) PANELS ARE BAD FOR DEMOCRACY AND SHOULD DIE (thread), November 2018