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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

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...

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 an abstraction.

War is an abstraction.

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,...

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...

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they...

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they...

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House...

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House...

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.