Quotes By 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.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

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

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

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

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