Top 36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson

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.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

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

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.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

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.

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.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.