This Nieman Reports article summarizes the findings. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont...

The conversation in part will respond to this report from Press Forward - www.pressforward.news/wp-content/u...

I think the handoff from shotgun formation on 4th and one is worse.

Way back in grad school, I used this tool to analyze how US presidents from 1988 to 2000 talked about climate change, and how we could potentially reframe things. (though I've adjusted things a bit on spheres) drive.google.com/file/d/1ADtO...

The public sphere combines them all, and it is always an interesting point of analysis of which one(s) dominate(s). Biofuels seems like a clear example of the political frame (& economic for a small group) somehow dominating science & common sense. But the more we learn about it, that can change.

So in argumentation there is a tool we use that talks about how argument works in different technical spheres (the primary ones are politics, science, law, economics, and morality). What counts as a good argument is different in each sphere. Conflict often when people focus on different spheres....

I agree, but I would also argue that sometimes "virtue signaling" was seeing an issue through too simplistic of a frame. Most issues involve many underlying values, & you can proclaim you are virtuous by simplifying it to one, thus implying people that disagree must be against that value/are evil.

Did it cite studies that don't exist?

Article that I am pulling the term from is here, from @debilyn.bsky.social thefulcrum.us/money-politi...

Here is how I see our current challenge (your point fits with information disorder, which combines overwhelming information overload with a crippled ability to process it and make important distinctions btw spectacle and substance).

Briand's Practical Politics provided an early blueprint for the CPD.

One of the most important books during grad school for me was Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s The New Rhetoric. It taught me how to think more deeply about values and their role in individual & community decision making (early seeds that led to all my work on wicked problems & polarity management)

You may need to round up the Newies for another fight.