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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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date...

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date...

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to...

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to...

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however,...

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however,...

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

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

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug...

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug...

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put...

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put...

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government...

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government...

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

War is an abstraction.

War is an abstraction.

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

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

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American...

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American...

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript,...

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript,...

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires...

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires...

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in...

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in...

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places...

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places...

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars...

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars...

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes...

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes...

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the...

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the...

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is...

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is...