PHL137 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Pregnancy, Sajid Javid
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Week 9: lecture 2: the power of language and rhetoric (news, fake news, and fake fake news) Politicians typically choose their words very carefully: perceptions are very important. When theresa may was home secretary of the uk, she advocated a really hostile environment for illegal migration . New home secretary sajid javid explicitly rejected the language, rather than the policies. The phrase hostile is a phrase that i"m not going to use, it"s a compliant environment, i don"t like the prase hostile . Washington: the trump administration has informed divisions within the. Department of health and human services that they should avoid using certain words or phrases in official documents being drafted for next year"s budget. Officials at the centres of disease control and prevention, a part of the. Dept of health and human services (hhs), were given a list of 7 prohibited words or phrases during a meeting with officials who oversee the budget.
