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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
"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."
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