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Brendan Nyhan's Books
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All the President's SpinAll the President's Spin, the first book from the editors of the acclaimed nonpartisan website Spinsanity, unmasks the tactics of deception and media...Read More
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The Patriot Post, April 18, 2012
...must be very troubling for Obama is the mounting evidence that presidential persuasion is vastly overrated. Political scientist Brendan Nyhan has noted that Reagan's rhetoric had little effect on the polls or his media coverage. Liberal Washington Post...
Market Oracle, March 28, 2012
...the breaking point. "The problem is we never know whether they believe what they're saying or not," Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth political scientist and author ofAll the President's Spin, told USA Today. At least three fact-checking organizations - the...
The Nation, December 2, 2011
...My New Think Again column is called "Why Do the Mainstream Media Like the Tea Party More Than Occupy Wall Street?" and it’s here. So the Grammys are out, and not that I care, but I would just like to point out on behalf of my argument that the Allman...
Aljazeera.com, March 1, 2012
...until quite recently. The second paper Berinsky points to, "When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions" by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler, describes a series of four experiments in which they "document several instances of a...
Columbia Journalism Review, February 29, 2012
...get the story right the first time! Digg Facebook Twitter Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious This article was written by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler. It is adapted from Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science (PDF), a New...
Salon, February 24, 2012
...the myth that the healthcare reform bill empowered government “death panels.” According to research by Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan, Republicans who thought they knew more about the Obama healthcare plan were “paradoxically more...
Daily Beast, February 22, 2012
...this cycle than ever before. “I admit that I thought they wouldn’t matter much,” says Dartmouth’s Brendan Nyhan, who chided “the media” as recently as Jan. 10 for “devoting too much attention” to the debates. “But now it’s clear that...
American Prospect, February 17, 2012
...the fMRI of that fish. Via Henry. Ben Bernanke’s speeches are more powerful than Barack Obama’s . Brendan Nyhan on media coverage of Romney . Yahoo! forecasting model predicts Obama victory . Hat tip to Daniel Lippman. Uncle Sam needs scientists....
National Interest, February 10, 2012
...be done to correct misinformation once it takes root. In their recent piece in Political Behavior, for example, Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler conduct experiments aimed at discovering whether or not news stories were capable of correcting misinformation...
Dartmouth College The Dartmouth, February 9, 2012
...{{{next_photo}}} During work on a senatorial campaign in Nevada in 2000, Brendan Nyhan, now a member of Dartmouth’s government department, was distressed by the lack of nonpartisan sources covering the 2002 elections. This spurred him to co-found...
