Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and ap….

Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in televis….

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

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 skirt. And those in authority….

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the….

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

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 rea….

Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they ….

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..

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

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

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

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 own ability to ju….

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 nec….