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"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."
"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."
"Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam."
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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."
"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."
"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."
"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."
"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."
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
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