Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
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What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.