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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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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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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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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."
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"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
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"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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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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"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
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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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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
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"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of 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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"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum."
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"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light."
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"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
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"Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility."
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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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