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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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in...

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in...

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,...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

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

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

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...

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.