Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

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

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

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.

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

They hate to go back,

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...

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.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

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

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

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.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

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,

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

We want Dylan! We want Dylan!

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

We each donated a meter.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

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.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Then, two years after he’d moved in,

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

You said we stole food and then you would starve us for a whole day. You would make me wear Pampers during the entire 12 years I was there and I never had a problem...

War is an abstraction.

Bruce Jackson: The Peace Bridge Chronicles.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Most email I get is from readers suggesting links they think might be of interest or people submitting articles or ideas for articles.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

I’d get too tearful if I had to let him go, … We really didn’t need three, but after having him here for 10, 11 days, he is just the perfect dog.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.