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Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
Bruce Jackson
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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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.
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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.
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The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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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.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
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