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.
More Quotes from Bruce Jackson:
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.Bruce Jackson
War is an abstraction.
Bruce Jackson
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.
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
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
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
Bruce Jackson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Television QuotesBased on Keywords: broadcasts, chattering, lump, reporter, suggestive
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
Norma Shearer
I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.
Eric Stoltz