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Being Framed on Freedom

Written by Richard Mollet
Tue Jan 24, 2012

As George Orwell reminded us, the most important of all political tools is language.  Power lies with those who can frame a debate by defining its terms and then argue on their appointed ground, or who can even ultimately expunge or introduce words into the public vocabulary.  So in any policy conversation it is always necessary not just to listen to what is being said, but how it is being said.  Or as Frank Luntz put it: it’s not what you say that matters, it’s what people hear.

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