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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. -- Bruce Jackson
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. -- Michael Hastings
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. -- Bruce Jackson
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. -- William Westmoreland
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy. -- David Hackworth
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire. -- Joe Scarborough
Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. -- Howard Fineman
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. -- Richard Hell
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. -- Julian Assange
Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. -- Ed Harris
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. -- Timothy Garton Ash
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand. -- David Talbot
Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right. -- David Conyers
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. -- Ani DiFranco
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told. -- Shane Smith
I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq. -- Oliver North
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it. -- James Cromwell
Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies -- Julian Assange
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. -- Bruce Jackson
When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision. -- Neil Postman
Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War? -- Caroline Lucas
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. -- Bruce Jackson
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media. -- Paul Virilio
I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. -- Donald Trump
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
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The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game. -- Jonathan Raymond
The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines. -- Chris Hayes
What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. -- David Hackworth
We were surprised by the [low] level of morale of the American troops in the Somalia war. There was nothing that they were fighting for except media glory. -- Osama bin Laden
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire -- Joe Scarborough
War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism. -- David Burnett

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