Bruce Jackson Quotes

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

Home, Freedom, Able

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

War, Media, Tells

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

War, American, Against

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

Important, Else, Source

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

Time, Death, Between

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

War, Government, Words

War is an abstraction.
Bruce Jackson

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

War, Words, Made

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

Trying, Action, Three

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

War, Happen, Accept

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

Words, American, Few

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