 Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. |
| All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. |
| The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. |
| War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. |
| 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. |
| Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. |
| The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else. |
| When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract. |
| 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. |
| The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. |
| 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. |
| I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. |
| Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media. |
| Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. |
| 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. |
| Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. |
