Bruce Jackson Quotes
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War is an abstraction.
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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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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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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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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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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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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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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
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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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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.