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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...

—Bruce Jackson

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Students end up giving themselves away for things that are bigger and better than they are.

—Bruce Jackson

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

—Bruce Jackson

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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...

—Bruce Jackson

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All the sound the audience hears goes from the mixing console through a bunch of Lake processors.

—Bruce Jackson

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia’s ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.

—Bruce Jackson

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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

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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...

—Bruce Jackson

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Everybody
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You yelled at us, cursed at us, hit us with brooms, rulers, sticks, shoes and belt buckles. I still have the marks to prove it.

—Bruce Jackson

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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,...

—Bruce Jackson

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Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don’t think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.

—Bruce Jackson

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Books And Reading
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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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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

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The jobs may be there. The question is, at what cost do those jobs come? They’re not free.

—Bruce Jackson

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Jobs
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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...

—Bruce Jackson

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That’s the first job I ever had that I love, even though I don’t get paid, … I sure like those dogs.

—Bruce Jackson

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Love
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Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

—Bruce Jackson

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You’ve gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

—Bruce Jackson

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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I want to see Miss Jackson go to jail for life. You took my childhood, a childhood I was supposed to have. I was so disappointed I will never get that back.

—Bruce Jackson

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Childhood
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

—Bruce Jackson

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They hate to go back,

—Bruce Jackson

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Hate
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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...

—Bruce Jackson

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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It is not possible to link anybody in this hemisphere to any ethnic group in Africa at this time.

—Bruce Jackson

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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

—Bruce Jackson

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We thought we needed a publication base for works in progress that deserved some light at this point, or for works that didn’t fit other publication categories.

—Bruce Jackson

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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

—Bruce Jackson

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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...

—Bruce Jackson

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BodyLessOften
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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

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Bring
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France hasn’t been a member of NATO’s military command for the last 37 years, so their agreement on military planning isn’t even required.

—Bruce Jackson

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Agreement
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

—Bruce Jackson

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It was about things he had always wanted to write about, but was never quite able to.

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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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

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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

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I think that’s all been settled, I don’t know what their point is now, anyway.

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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There’s a very, very great misconception among people who read about DNA technology that it’s a magic bullet and it’s not. It’s a very powerful tool and probably the most powerful in terms of human...

—Bruce Jackson

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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

—Bruce Jackson

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We just feel that it’s wrong. All it’s doing is increasing the number of people that want to do our country harm by making more enemies than allies. I’m just convinced that this administration is...

—Bruce Jackson

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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Puppies are so much fun, but it’s so much more rewarding to see a dog that’s been in bad hands … wagging his tail. It’s just better to get a dog like that, I think,

—Bruce Jackson

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Fun
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I’m a schoolteacher and a writer. So that’s what I do.

—Bruce Jackson

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Writer
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We want Dylan! We want Dylan!

—Bruce Jackson

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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

—Bruce Jackson

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We each donated a meter.

—Bruce Jackson

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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.

—Bruce Jackson

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