Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
