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.

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.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn’t vetting the pictures and words.

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...

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.

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.