Sentences with phrase «shaping public opinion»

Proponents of tort reform, led by men such as Karl Rove, learned early on the value in shaping public opinion in regards to the civil justice system; YOUR civil justice system.

In ethical terms we see another example of a climate scientist who holds a strong ethical commitment to the policy dimension of climate change and its associated end of shaping public opinion and behaviour, appearing to prioritise the pursuit of those ends above the narrower moral codes of scientific discovery.

-LSB-...] Genius Award winner, intent on shaping public opinion, proves himself a thief and liar, and those who backed him gullible -LSB-...]

The curatorial choices also emphasize the role of photography in shaping public opinion as well as the longer - term matter of our shared history — how we come to know and remember it.

Replacing the 246, the 308 was dramatic and modern, eventually becoming an icon of television shows and movies, while shaping public opinion about what a sports car should look and feel like.

Findings Show Research Evidence Can Be Equally Significant in Shaping Public Opinion.

They describe this as the «circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

It says tobacco was and coal is under attack from «well funded, well organized NGO opposition driving regulatory policy, media messaging, and shaping public opinion — often with poor / no science.»

They described the phrase as «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief».

The Oxford English Dictionary declared «post-truth» the word of the year — the notion that «objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.»

This gives the site and its owner, Mark Zuckerberg, the potential power to shape public opinion or even sway elections.

These figures rarely get a fact check, but they shape public opinion, drive donations and become arguments for government intervention.

If so, such comments were rare and not part of a concerted effort to shape public opinion.

However, several examples related to U.S. rhetoric about Nicaragua can illustrate how disinformation is used in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the U.S. war against the poor.

All in all, Beecher did not shape public opinion so much as embody it.

Obviously, they also own the media that shape public opinion.

People of faith can help to shape public opinion and so influence political decisions.

«A struggle session was a form of public humiliation and torture used by the Communist Party of China in the Mao Zedong era, particularly during the Cultural Revolution, to shape public opinion and to humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and class enemies.

The social network has changed the way people spread ideas and the tools specialists can use to shape public opinion.

The obvious factor which shapes public opinion is the continuation of an economic crisis which has resulted in a six - year...

The media shapes public opinion 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and even worse, in the US, the media works hard pretending to be neutral and unbiased when they so clearly are not.

It's hard to see how that can be considered «real» effect; but it may shape public opinions which in turn may have some effects on states» governments» policies.

Katrina noted that objective information about the Nigerian Prisons Service will certainly shape public opinion and guide policy makers towards evolving a sense of collective responsibility for better prison system.

When ordinary citizens complain about the titans of media abusing their power to shape public opinion, the complaint often revolves around the placement of a news item, not the story's content.

The new report covered news literacy, as well as students» ability to judge Facebook and Twitter feeds, comments left in readers» forums on news sites, blog posts, photographs and other digital messages that shape public opinion.

How might this growing salience shape public opinion on the standards?

To further explore Obama's capacity to shape public opinion, the survey asked half the respondents whether they favor «toughening» state standards used to evaluate student performance.

New media has not been immune to propaganda; in fact it has fast become the main method of shaping public opinions and thoughts.

The campaign seems designed to make sure that the explosive issues being raised regarding teachers» job security in California ripple far beyond a cramped courtroom in Los Angeles and help shape public opinion across the state and nation.

From this perspective, it might be less important for animal advocates to put together the best logical arguments, and more important to shape public opinion in a way that creates judges who rule in favor of animal personhood.

Provoking questions about authenticity and the power of photography to shape public opinion, the exhibition presents a roster of renowned photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke - White, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, Danny Lyon, Bill Owens, and Gordon Parks.

They shape public opinion, and, given the enormous amount of money going into the opinion shaping campaign, it's a credit to the people of the US that perhaps only a third of them have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.

Of course, not all organizations engaged in manipulative efforts to shape public opinion can be classified as «front groups.»

In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape public opinion and influence societal decisions.

Special Issue Call for Papers Environmental Debates Over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape public opinion and influence societal decisions.

«The challenge facing climate policy is to design policies that are consonant with public opinion, and are effective, rather than try to shape public opinion around particular policies,» he argues.

except as way to shape public opinion...

Climate scientists face an ethical choice: do they conform to established ethical standards of scientific practice or do they sacrifice those standards in favour of actions and statements that will be more likely to shape public opinion and climate policy in their preferred direction?

I hope to educate and to inform; to instill outrage in those who have not yet been injured; to shape public opinion, and in so doing to change the world.

And how do their representations shape public opinion?

And she described the incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a «game - changer» — arguing it could underpin a push for increased transparency around the data flows that are feeding and shaping public opinions.

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But the press conference likely aimed to shape U.S. public opinion, Malik said, and while not producing any groundbreaking intelligence, would make it easier for President Donald Trump to scrap the deal.

Public opinion will play a significant role in shaping the debates surrounding the deal, including here in Canada.

Lyndon Johnson, taking Walter Cronkite's misreporting of Tet seriously, lost heart; the Democratic party largely abandoned the war that John F. Kennedy had begun; public opinion, shaped by what now appears to have been some of the worst reporting of the television age, turned decisively against the war.

Low - intensity - conflict strategy is shaped as much by the need to manage U.S. public opinion as it is by the assessment of how to fight effectively within third - world settings.

For most people, religion plays virtually no role in shaping their opinions on a long list of important public questions.

In North America we always have thought of our press as the basic medium for the free and open discussion of ideas, the extension of the soap - box, the essential element which makes possible the shaping of public opinions and decisions.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

Highly concerned with shaping and controlling public opinion, Chinese authorities are quick to address materials posted online.

The authors will discuss the history of these theories, their roles in shaping modern - day public opinion, and their relevance -LSB-...]