Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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.
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.
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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.
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.
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
War is an abstraction.
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.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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.
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
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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