The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and… — 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
