Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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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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The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
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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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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.
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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.
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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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.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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We thought we needed a publication base for works in progress that deserved some light at this point, or for works that didn't fit other publication categories.
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France hasn't been a member of NATO's military command for the last 37 years, so their agreement on military planning isn't even required.
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We just feel that it's wrong. All it's doing is increasing the number of people that want to do our country harm by making more enemies than allies. I'm just convinced that this administration is less concerned with diplomacy and more concerned about showing the world its strength.