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- Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
- 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 media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
- 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 element:…
- You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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