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Bruce Jackson Quotes & Sayings

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38 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated May 2020

Bruce Jackson Topics

America And Americans
Sex
Vietnam

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

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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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When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

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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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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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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.

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

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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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War is an abstraction.

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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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They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

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

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

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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 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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