Seeing is believing Quotes by Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

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

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

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

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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