Quotes from Bruce Jackson

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

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.

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.

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

War is an abstraction.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.