Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
point
I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
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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.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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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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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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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
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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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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia's ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.
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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.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.