In his 1974 book Frame Analysis, Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman argues that the way information is framed tells us what to think of an issue as much as how to think about it. But what if the framing is a spin in a report on a marginalised community, in the most-read paper of the world’s most-populous democracy?
A Dainik Jagran report on Adivasi identity, published in a news package on Draupadi Murmu’s election as India’s first Adivasi president, is a case in point.
