“The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.”
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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
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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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