Blogflop
Analysis
Berger's elite political players were not in direct conflict. There was injustice, yet neither no victim with whom readers could identify.
Both Kerry's gun flip-flop and his debate cheat sheet lacked conflict, an
identifiable victim, or clear injustice.
The missing explosives and their framing as administration duplicity / media
bias possessed conflict between elite players but lacked a clear injustice
perpetrated by an antagonist against an empathetic victim.
The Italian businessman behind the uranium documents was neither a political
elite nor in direct conflict, and it was never clear exactly what was
the larger injustice to which Marshall seemed to allude or whom it hurt.
Bush's medals had a clear, politically elite villain, but no clear
conflict, injustice, or victim.
The Mary Cheney fracas possessed political elites in conflict, but
Sullivan's unsuccessful framing can be attributed to its lack of empathetic
victims as potent as the parents who had their personal lives exposed
on television.
All blogflops lacked agency, a route through which to correct the injustice.