The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. Bruce Jackson More Quotes by Bruce Jackson More Quotes From Bruce Jackson Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. Bruce Jackson uslookingbecomeworld It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. Bruce Jackson howclearopinionmedia 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 to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden. Bruce Jackson viewcollaborationburdenworld Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media. Bruce Jackson technologybookwayworld The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. Bruce Jackson americanmediamilitarywar What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen. Bruce Jackson deadmorehowworthy 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. Bruce Jackson picturesdailytimepeople They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it. Bruce Jackson youparenttimedeath 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 the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that. Bruce Jackson goodyouwarpeople Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. Bruce Jackson mostinvisiblearchitecturebridges America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. Bruce Jackson onlyprisonlongamerica 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 their military forces, in the best possible light. Bruce Jackson decisionsownbestlight All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. Bruce Jackson defendfaranimalspassion Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. Bruce Jackson daysbooksnowdelivery Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. Bruce Jackson bothamericanourtelevision Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Bruce Jackson createddocumentaryfilmspossibility Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. Bruce Jackson pricemoreeasyway 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 happened without those images. Bruce Jackson helpwithoutunderstanddisaster For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. Bruce Jackson elementinstrumentmediawar I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. Bruce Jackson schoolteacherwriter
