Assumption Quote by Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

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

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Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and…

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Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture…

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

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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.

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Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

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women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be…

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