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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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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."
"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."
"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."
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