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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
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 a burden. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us."
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. Bruce Jackson
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 bureaucracy to tell you something is real. Bruce Jackson
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
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 you it was. Bruce Jackson
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public..."
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or..."
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. Bruce Jackson
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely..."
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us..."
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is..."
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "War is an abstraction."
War is an abstraction. Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson quote: "Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of..."
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Bruce Jackson

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