Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear.… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action,… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share
