political narrative
Governing faction's story
A political narrative is a story that frames political events, actors, or issues in a particular way to shape public understanding.
Politicians and parties craft narratives to explain their positions and discredit opponents: The administration's narrative blamed rising prices on corporate greed.
Competing narratives often clash over the same facts, offering different interpretations of cause, blame, and solution.
They're trying to control the narrative suggests strategic manipulation of how events are perceived.
- slogansCatchy promotional catchphrases
- sound biteBrief broadcast quotation
- revisionismReexamining established doctrine
- reinterpretationNew understanding of something
- editorialsPaper's official stances
propaganda · speech · debate · historical memory · activism · spin · media spin · ideology · rally · fake news · echo chamber · framing · stage · diplomacy · public opinion · headlines · colonialism · investigative journalism
- political fictiondystopia, utopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, dystopian fiction
- political theatreagitprop, documentary drama, guerrilla theatre, street theatre, Bertolt Brecht
political narrativeraw data
Unanalyzed collected information
primary sources · documentary evidence · hard facts · statistics · empirical evidence
political narrativebalanced coverage
Proportionate treatment of viewpoints
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