Bruce Jackson Quotes

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• America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
• 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…
• All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
• Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
• Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
• Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
• Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
• First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have…
• For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
• It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
• Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
• Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
• Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump…
• The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on…
• The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view…
• The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
• The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
• The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
• The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has…
• The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

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