Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 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.

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.

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...

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or...

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or...

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...

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...

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...

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...

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences...

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences...

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...

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,...

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...

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

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,...