Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
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The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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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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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: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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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.
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When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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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 constantly.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.