Robert Jensen
Robert Jensen
Robert William Jensen, has been professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin since 1992. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics...
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This is not going to be quick or easy. It is not something that will be handled in a couple of weeks.
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The world has to address how mass fatality incidents are dealt with. Because ultimately it is the families who suffer.
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On Sept. 10 there was pain and suffering of a world manifested by power. There is nothing special about Sept. 11; there is nothing special about our pain in this country. It mattered no more or no less than the pain and suffering of the rest of the world that day. We cannot contribute to the lives lost by innocent civilians because of a corruption of power.
death insurance life
Without identification and a death certificate, there is no life insurance payout or probate.
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We have consistently been asked to fulfill more responsibilities without being given the concomitant authority, ... we now find ourselves being called upon to perform coordination for multiple agencies and are increasingly required to conduct time-consuming search procedures.
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The tsunami was the first time that countries wanted a say in how their dead were returned home. Now there is movement between countries, and at Interpol, to ask what agreements can be reached to avoid confusion the next time.
people
We still have 1,500 or 1,400 people unidentified from the tsunami. I don't think this one will take that long, but I don't know. There is still a lot of water,
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I think it's a good thing. I bet it'll fill that truck up. It's a pretty giving community and I'm glad to be a part of it.
pain knowing empathy
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
justice matter able
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.
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I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.
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This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.
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How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
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Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?