The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.- Bruce Jackson
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
I am a schoolteacher and a writer. So that is what I do.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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.
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
