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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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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."
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"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."
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"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
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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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"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."
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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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"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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"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us."
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