The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

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

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

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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

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

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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.

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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

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What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

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