Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and … - Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

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 process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

Accustomed, Intimate, Messages, Narrative, News, Thinking

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

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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 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.

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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.

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

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