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 20thactioncentury share on social
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. Bruce Jackson bringcompletefreedom Change image and share on social
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 bodybroadcastchatter share on social
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. Bruce Jackson clearinfluencemedium Change image and share on social
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. Bruce Jackson belongdocumenthistorian Change image and share on social
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Bruce Jackson createdeclinedocumentary Change image and share on social
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. Bruce Jackson callgovernmentmean Change image and share on social
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 acceptdocumentelement share on social
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 abuseaidbudget share on social
