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This 5 page paper considers the way in which Barack Obama has chosen to present one issue in his presidential campaign. It identifies the “skeleton” of the issue and also considers to what extent he is using the “skeleton” to frame the event, whether such framing is important, what it says about story skeletons in general, and whether they are truly more important than the stories they support. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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looking at that is that we all tend to pick the facts that fit our beliefs and ignore everything else. This paper considers this selectivity with regard to Barack Obamas
presidential campaign. It looks at one issue that he is discussing in his campaign and identifies its "skeleton." It also considers to what extent he is using the "skeleton" to
frame the event, whether such framing is important, what it says about story skeletons in general, and whether they are truly more important than the stories they support. Discussion The
concept of a story "skeleton" seems strange, but its fairly simple. Schank gives an example of how this works when he discusses the incident in which an American cruiser, the
USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988. An example of how it works in 1988. Every political leader in the world had some opinion of the incident, some
condemning the United States, some saying it had acted in self-defense. President Reagan, in responding to the - accident? Mishap? Attack? SNAFU? - whatever one calls it, said that it
was a "terrible human tragedy," but he also pointed out that the ships radar showed them an aircraft that was approaching and appeared to be reducing altitude; since they were
on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he thought that "it was an understandable accident to shoot and think they were under
attack from that plane" (Schank 305). (Flimsy as it is, its one possible interpretation of events, but what is of interest is not how stupid it makes the Vincennes radar
operators look, but the skeleton of Reagans remarks.) He has "chosen a common skeleton: understandable tragedy" (Schank 305). This particular skeleton, according to Schank, looks like this: "Actor (here the
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