Quotes by Bruce Jackson - Page 1

War is an abstraction.
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War
Abstraction
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I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
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Writer
Schoolteacher
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Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
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Bridges
Looking
Around
Frames
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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Architecture
Bridges
Form
Invisible
Public
Perhaps
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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Defeat
Grounded
Notion
Triumph
Zero-Sum
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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American Television
Bloodless
Wars
Largely
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Inverted
Possibility
Declining
Documentary
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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Nowhere
Photographs
Web
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The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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Blood
Guts
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Attacks
For Example
Resulting
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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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Complete Freedom
Complete
Wars
Rarely
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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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Delivery
Manuscript
Stands
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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Deaths
Gotten
Images
Iraqi
Precious
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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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Element
Governments
Instrument
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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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Changed
Media
Publishing
Technology World Way
Works
Everything Else
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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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Clear
Opinion
Public Opinion
How Much
Influences
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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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Military
Us Military
Vietnam
American Public
Blames
Images
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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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Vietnam
Pictures
Uncensored
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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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Heterosexuality
Sentences
Condition
Cure
Longest
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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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Tsunami
Worthy
Note
Recent
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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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Academic
Cornered
Justification
Territory
Animals
Defend
Departments
Far Less
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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.
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Easy Way
Date
Price
Quickly
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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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History
Documents
Social
Belongs
Historians
Important Lesson
Lesson
Perhaps
Survive
The Most Important
Whom
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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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Choices
Reporters
Appear
Images
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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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Abstract
Lovers
Silence
Theoretical
Die
Closer
Gets
Least
Quieter
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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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Ordinary
Parent
Standing
Puts
They Say
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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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Data
Utilizing
Documentary
Missed
Reported
Scientists
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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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Disaster
Magnitude
Tsunami
Caused
Aid
Images
Outpouring
Specific
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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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Military
Decisions
Actions
Wars
Disposal
Forces
Governments
Motives
Military Forces
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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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Arctic
Burden
Collaboration
Understood
Benefit
Disciplines
Points
Region
Requires
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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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Jealous
Monument
Vietnam
Wall
War Good People
Bet
Wars
Forgets
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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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Documents
Element
Presents
Third
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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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Chattering
Distant
Reporter
Images
Lump
Main
Press
Specific
Suggestive
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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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Century
Conflict
Development
Natural World
Spheres
Darwin
Define
Describe
Entered
Explain
Freud
Internal
Marx
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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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Abuse
Aids
Budgets
Bureaucracy
Illiteracy
Legislation
Poverty
Terrorism
Wars
Fought
Offices
Recent
Recent Years
Termed
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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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Embedded
Reporters
Superb
Time People Media
Daily
Ground
Immediate
Otherwise
Pictures
Press
Send
Small Thing
Stands
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