War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear.… — Bruce Jackson Appear 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 War Copy Share Image
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson Defeat 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… — Bruce Jackson Because 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… — Bruce Jackson Aid Copy Share Image
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Academic 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… — Bruce Jackson Friendship Copy Share Image
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. — Bruce Jackson Cinema Copy Share Image
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. — Bruce Jackson Able 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 Actions Copy Share Image
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. — Bruce Jackson About Copy Share Image
The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else. — Bruce Jackson Continues Copy Share Image
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. — Bruce Jackson Attacks Copy Share Image
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. — Bruce Jackson Cinema Copy Share Image
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or… — Bruce Jackson Science Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. — Bruce Jackson About Copy Share Image
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. — Bruce Jackson Architecture Copy Share Image
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger… — Bruce Jackson About Copy Share Image
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. — Bruce Jackson Books Copy Share Image
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson Clear Copy Share Image
What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. — Bruce Jackson Politics Copy Share Image
You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images. — Bruce Jackson Death Copy Share Image
