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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
Bruce Jackson
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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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.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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War is an abstraction.
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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.
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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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.
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
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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 theoretical or abstract.
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Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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