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Bruce Jackson
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Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
Bruce Jackson
World
Looking
Become
Frames
Around
Us
Bridges
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
World
Burden
Other
Benefit
Collaboration
Rather
Arctic
More
Fact
Points
Disciplines
Understood
Than
Any
Region
Requires
View
Many
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
Bruce Jackson
Technology
Book
World
Changed
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Way
Works
Media
Publishing
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
Seen
Other
Worthy
More
Perhaps
Dead
How
However
Than
Note
Many
Recent
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
People
Giving
Otherwise
Immediate
Press
Those
Tell
Embedded
Superb
About
Small
Small Thing
Pictures
Reporters
Send
Happened
Place
Us
Much
Ground
Stands
Media
Larger
Among
Thing
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
Bruce Jackson
Death
Buy
Time
You
Generation
Say
Parent
Puts
Between
Because
Ordinary
Next
Means
Standing
They Say
Now
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Bruce Jackson
Long
Prison
Heterosexuality
Only
Longest
West
Condition
Cure
America
Sentences
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
Light
Own
Military
Possible
Put
Forces
Motives
Governments
Decisions
Means
Used
Wars
Military Forces
Actions
Disposal
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Bruce Jackson
Passion
Animals
Too
Cornered
Though
Academic
Territory
Departments
Often
Justification
Far
Far Less
Less
Defend
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
Bruce Jackson
Books
Delivery
Days
Within
Often
Manuscript
Stands
Now
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
Bruce Jackson
Our
Television
Both
Were
Iraq
Bloodless
American
American Television
Wars
Largely
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
Bruce Jackson
Films
Possibility
Inverted
Documentary
Declining
Created
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
First
Aid
Those
Would
General
Outpouring
Magnitude
Disaster
Without
Understand
Caused
Huge
Happened
Us
Help
Specific
Images
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
Bruce Jackson
Writer
Schoolteacher
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
Lesson
Those
About
New
Perhaps
Most
Important Lesson
Documents
Historians
Survive
The Most Important
Social
Whom
Whose
Belongs
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
You
Distant
Press
Television
More
Only
Chattering
Main
Knew
Dead
Print
Because
Been
Than
Reporter
Often
Body
Less
Specific
Lump
Images
Suggestive
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
Key
Made
Films
Data
Fact
Missed
Most
Documentary
Scientists
Reported
Often
Social
Found
Utilizing
Things
The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
Bruce Jackson
You
Important
Else
Photographs
See
Web
Source
Nowhere
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
Bruce Jackson
War
Words
Made
Big
Constantly
Only
Reporters
Places
Choices
Many
Appear
Images
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bruce Jackson
Natural
Conflict
World
Three
Action
Define
Spheres
Entered
Darwin
Economic
Marx
Development
Ideas
Deal
Freud
Trying
Explain
Century
Natural World
Internal
Describe
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