Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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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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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.
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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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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
instrument war
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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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.
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
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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.
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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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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
war
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.