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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

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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.

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

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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.

  - Bruce Jackson