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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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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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The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
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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.
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The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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