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 process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. — 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
