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> [War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/war-is-grounded-in-the-notion-of-triumph-and-defeat-it-is-zero-sum/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

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## More by Bruce Jackson

> [War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/war-is-big-and-there-are-only-so-many-reporters-and-only-so-many/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/which-suggests-something-about-media-and-war-it-s-not-just-that/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/war-is-grounded-in-the-notion-of-triumph-and-defeat-it-is-zero-sum/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/television-broadcasts-have-in-the-main-been-more-suggestive-less/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/first-those-images-help-us-understand-the-general-and-specific/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/all-too-often-academic-departments-defend-their-territory-with-the/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/when-friends-and-lovers-die-and-your-world-gets-quieter-that-s-when/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/documentary-films-are-created-in-an-inverted-funnel-of-declining/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/the-media-bring-our-wars-home-but-only-rarely-have-they-been-able-to/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/all-governments-in-all-wars-have-used-all-the-means-at-their-disposal/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/the-media-is-not-at-all-homogeneous-in-the-way-it-tells-us-about-war/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/the-web-continues-to-be-a-source-of-important-photographs-you-see/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/the-mainstream-media-showed-for-example-no-blood-and-guts-resulting/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/filmmakers-who-use-narrators-pay-a-price-for-taking-the-easy-way/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

> [Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/bridges-become-frames-for-looking-at-the-world-around-us/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

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