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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 what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Deception, Heard, Known, Life, Politics, Said
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The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Assumption, Believe, Believing, Deception, Seeing, Susceptible

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 just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Bending, Lying, Mean, Mischaracterizing, Range, Reality

Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

Appearing, Males, Masculine, Signs, Taken, Trying

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

Feminism, Groupthink, Ought, Powerful, Sisterhood

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 a smile. . . . What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.

Believe, Country, Dried, Issues, Sound, World
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