Writer Quotes 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…

— 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…

— Bruce Jackson

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

— 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…

— 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…

— Bruce Jackson

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

— 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…

— Bruce Jackson

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

— Bruce Jackson

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

— 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…

— Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

— Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

— Bruce Jackson

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

— Bruce Jackson

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

— Bruce Jackson

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

— Bruce Jackson