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.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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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.
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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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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.
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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.
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What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
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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.
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