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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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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."

"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media."

"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."

"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."

"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 US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."

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

"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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