The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
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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.Bruce Jackson
War is an abstraction.
Bruce Jackson
We can't just be traipsing all over Africa looking for groups, ... If you have an idea of your parental lineage, it really helps to focus on where we should look genetically.
Bruce Jackson
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
Bruce Jackson
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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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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