"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb……" — Bruce Jackson
"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 ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."
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Bruce Jackson
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36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and…
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films…
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First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring…
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be…
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the…
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose…
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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