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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
War is an abstraction.
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not... →
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... →
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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... →
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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