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Bruce Jackson Quotes

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m a schoolteacher and a writer. So that’s what I do Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war Picture Quote #1

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero sum Picture Quote #1

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else Picture Quote #1

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks Picture Quote #1

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture Picture Quote #1

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom Picture Quote #1

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are Picture Quote #1

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam Picture Quote #1

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media Picture Quote #1

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Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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. (Bruce Jackson Quotes) I’m a schoolteacher and a writer. So that’s what I do (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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. (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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. (Bruce Jackson Quotes) The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war (Bruce Jackson Quotes) War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero sum (Bruce Jackson Quotes) The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else (Bruce Jackson Quotes) The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks (Bruce Jackson Quotes) Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture (Bruce Jackson Quotes) Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators (Bruce Jackson Quotes) It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom (Bruce Jackson Quotes) Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are (Bruce Jackson Quotes) All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words (Bruce Jackson Quotes) 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 (Bruce Jackson Quotes) The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam (Bruce Jackson Quotes) Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media (Bruce Jackson Quotes)

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