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

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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…

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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…

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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…

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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

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