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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 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.”

Quote by Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is an esteemed American scholar of political communication, currently serving as a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is renowned for her research in political communication, election studies, and media influence. more

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