News frames select, exclude, and organize details to shape audience conclusions.

Evidence

As to the media framing theory, framing encompasses the methods by which journalists present and organize information to their audience. News frames provide several functions, such as providing perspectives that form the basis of their analyses and conclusions, excluding certain details from a story while permitting others, and compiling data in a way that allows a narrative to be built upon it. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 11

Categorization

• XREF: Core statement of framing theory (Entman-style selection/salience) that connects to media-effects and agenda-setting literature.
• SEED: Angle: how the same terrorist incident gets framed into three incompatible narratives across Western, Gulf, and South Asian outlets.