But they are filled with anguish and ecstasy and a kind of framing and lighting and camera movement that steadily deepens the routine script material.
Journalism educators characterize this kind of framing as a storytelling habit — one of relating new facts to an existing storyline — and also as a reflex of news organizations that are built to handle some topics well, and others less well.
No one would argue that experimenting with narrative isn't the right of every author; and in fact Philip Roth, whose influence is all over this book, routinely pulls off precisely this kind of framing device.
The kind of framing used by McKibben in the Daily Beast also came up during the astounding tornado outbreaks earlier this year, as Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University told ThinkProgress that "climate change is present in every single meteorological event".
You're conscious of where the camera is and what kind of shot it is and what kind of framing and all that stuff.
This kind of framing effects have been shown to have a very large influence in survey results.
