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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.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Because Been Body Dead Distant Images Knew Less Lump Main More Often Only Press Print Reporter Specific Television Than You

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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

Topics: About Among Daily Embedded Giving Ground Happened Immediate Larger Media Much Otherwise People Pictures Place Press Reporters Send Small Small Thing Stands Superb Tell Thing Those Time Us

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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.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Data Documentary Fact Films Found Key Made Missed Most Often Reported Scientists Social Things

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The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Attacks Blood Example For Example Guts Mainstream Mainstream Media Media Resulting

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

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Able Been Bring Complete Freedom Home Media Only Our Rarely Wars

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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.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Against American American Public Images Media Military Public Still Stories Turned Us Vietnam War

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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Else Important Nowhere Photographs See Source Web You

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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.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Because Between Buy Death Generation Means Next Now Ordinary Parent Puts Say Standing They Say Time You

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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.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Government Means Often Only Our Pictures Vietnam War Words

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War is an abstraction.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Abstraction War

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Type: Public Servant

Born: Unknown

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