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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.
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
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