Framing by Wording, Framing by Selection: A Large-Scale Two-Dimensional Audit of French News Headlines, 2022-2025
News headlines frame public issues both by what they select and by how they word it, yet computational framing work typically collapses these operations into a single score. We introduce a two-dimensional framework that separates salience framing, measured through four wording devices (loaded vocabulary, blame attribution, threat framing, rhetorical question), from selection framing, measured through outlet-level story-form and high-charge distributions. We build a 10,000-headline French supervision set using three LLM annotators with majority-vote resolution and human arbitration, validate the labels against two annotator-independent blind human studies, and apply the strongest classifie...
| Authors | Amr Sobhy |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 12 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 August 2026 |
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