Top 36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

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.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

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.

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

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.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.