Framing

Note the wording of the following headline from this evening in the IT:

Nphet tells Government to keep restaurants and pubs closed over Christmas

But the first paragraph immediately under it:

The State’s public health team has recommended that restaurants and gastropubs stay closed for the festive period except for takeaways, it has emerged.

Recommendations as against ‘telling’. Interesting framing there.

UPDATE: By 9pm they had changed the headline to:

Reopening hospitality sector will mean limiting Christmas gatherings, Nphet warns

And even recommendations had been reworked as:

The State’s public health team has advised the Government that either rules on households visits can be relaxed over the festive season or the hospitality sector could start to reopen but both should not take place at once.

Moreover:

In a letter to the Government, the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) presented the Government with two broad options. It said if restaurants and other hospitality providers were allowed to reopen for Christmas then visits to people’s homes should be limited to one other household only. However, it said the rules on visiting homes could be relaxed further if restaurants and gastropubs remained closed for the festive period except for takeaways.

What a difference three hours makes.