Bruce Jackson Quotes

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Bruce Jackson

Long, America, Prison

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.
Bruce Jackson

Made, Fact, Often

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
Bruce Jackson

Government, Real, Everything

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

War, Defeat, Triumph

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
Bruce Jackson

Good, War, Jealous

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
Bruce Jackson

Dead, Seen, Tsunami

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Bruce Jackson

Silence, Friends, Die

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
Bruce Jackson

Best, Put, Light

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Bruce Jackson

Passion, Often, Far

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
Bruce Jackson

Often, Days, Books

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

American, Both, Television

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
Bruce Jackson

Public, Invisible, Perhaps

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
Bruce Jackson

Become, Around, Looking

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

Films, Created, Declining

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
Bruce Jackson

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
Bruce Jackson

Help, Understand, Tsunami

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
Bruce Jackson

War, Media, Instrument

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

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

Opinion, Public, Media

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

History, Important, Social

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
Bruce Jackson

Technology, Book, Everything

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.
Bruce Jackson

Often, Dead, Body

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Bruce Jackson

Time, Daily, Giving

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson

Rather, Fact, View

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

Blood, Media, Example

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