The Seven Frames
When you read a news story, what do you notice first — who’s getting hurt? Whether the rules were fair? What it costs? That instinct isn’t random. It’s your moral frame.
Most news gives you left vs. right. FrameDial gives you seven — each grounded in moral psychology, each revealing something the others miss.
How it works
Every story has two interactive dials. The Frame Dial moves between two contrasting frames selected for that story — same facts, different moral focus. Cable News Mode adds satirical left and right readings that make media manipulation obvious through exaggeration.
These aren’t political positions. They’re the value dimensions that explain why people disagree.
The interesting part is where they collide
Every frame illuminates something real. A policy that scores well on Shield might fail on Key. What Pillar defends might be what Scale indicts. That tension isn’t a bug — it’s the actual shape of the disagreement.
Cable News Mode
Cable News Mode satirizes tribal media — the outrage, the buzzwords, the finger-pointing. By showing how absurd partisan framing sounds, it makes the quality of the seven serious frames obvious by contrast.
Why seven — not two?
Left vs. right is a line. Reality is a landscape. Two people can disagree completely while both making morally coherent arguments — they’re just looking through different frames. FrameDial makes that visible.
The goal isn’t to tell you which frame is right. It’s to make you fluent in all seven — so you can see what you’ve been missing.