57 Quotes by Bruce Jackson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.