Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
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The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
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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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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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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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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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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
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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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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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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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It is not possible to link anybody in this hemisphere to any ethnic group in Africa at this time.
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Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.
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Most email I get is from readers suggesting links they think might be of interest or people submitting articles or ideas for articles.