[IP] Question for IP

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Chris Beck" <cbeck@pacanukeha.net>
Subject: Question for IP
Date: 20th September 2006
Time: 4:48:32 am

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• From: Chris Beck <cbeck@pacanukeha.net>
• To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
• Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:40:42 -0400

Hi Dave,
I was wondering if I could ask the collective wisdom a question.  I've googled
it to death but I am obviously using the wrong keywords.

There is a concept related to discussion framing called, I believe, "shifting."
 It is a political technique where an agent attempts to redefine or shift what
is commonly believed to be the centre of an issue-axis in stepwise fashion.  The
context that I saw it used in was in public vs private education where small
incremental shifts in public attitude were used to normalize the idea of school
vouchers in a community where previously vouchers had been viewed as an extreme
option.

Apologies in advance if you don't feel that this would be a good use of
bandwidth and an abuse of your goodwill.

Cheers,
Chris
-- 
Christopher Beck  -  http://pacanukeha.wordpress.com
The sad fact is that "national security" has become the root password to
the Constitution. -- Phil Karn

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