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War Quotes by Bruce Jackson
- For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
- The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
- The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
- War is an abstraction.
- War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made…
- War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
- Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
- Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like…
- 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:…
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