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. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Image
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. — 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
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 Image
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
