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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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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."

"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
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"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."

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

"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."

"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."
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