Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
guts mainstream resulting
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
instrument war
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
delivery stands
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.
influences public
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
grounded notion war
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.