English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Bruce Jackson quotes

Public Servant

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

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
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
Bruce Jackson quote: "Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it..."
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media. Bruce Jackson
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
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 bet on that. Bruce Jackson
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
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
Bruce Jackson quote: "You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and..."
You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been..."
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. Bruce Jackson
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. Bruce Jackson
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
Bruce Jackson quote: "Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a..."
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. Bruce Jackson
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
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
Bruce Jackson quote: "The US military still blames the media for stories and images..."
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. Bruce Jackson

Popular Author

Related Authors