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

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

War is an abstraction.

War is an abstraction.

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...

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,...

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by...

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by...

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...

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small...

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small...

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their...

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's...

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's...

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how...

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how...