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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. "
Bruce Jackson
Media
War
American
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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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Own
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Best
" For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. "
Bruce Jackson
Element
War
Media
" Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. "
Bruce Jackson
Possibility
Films
Documentary
" Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. "
Bruce Jackson
Pay
Way
Easy
" America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. "
Bruce Jackson
West
Only
Long
" The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. "
Bruce Jackson
Poverty
You
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" Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. "
Bruce Jackson
Us
Looking
Become
" War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. "
Bruce Jackson
War
Grounded
Notion
" 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. "
Bruce Jackson
Think
Good
War
" 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. "
Bruce Jackson
Only
Dead
You
" Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. "
Bruce Jackson
Days
Books
Delivery
" First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images. "
Bruce Jackson
Without
Us
Disaster
" Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. "
Bruce Jackson
Most
Architecture
Bridges
" I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. "
Bruce Jackson
Writer
Schoolteacher
" The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. "
Bruce Jackson
Home
Media
Bring
" 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. "
Bruce Jackson
View
Burden
Collaboration
" The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. "
Bruce Jackson
Tells
About
Way
" The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. "
Bruce Jackson
Blood
Example
Guts
" 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. "
Bruce Jackson
Key
Data
Social
" All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. "
Bruce Jackson
Academic
Far
Defend
" The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people. "
Bruce Jackson
People
Small
Place
" It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. "
Bruce Jackson
Media
Clear
Opinion
" Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media. "
Bruce Jackson
Technology
Media
Book
" Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. "
Bruce Jackson
New
Survive
Important