Reader Poll (Vault) And The Chinese Drinking Contest

Okay team, do we do a 10%, 50% or 90% turn toward China, and the visual politics of the Olympics?

ObamaPhobia: BagNewsNotes Netroots Nation Presentation ’08

For those of you who have yet to see it, I'm proud to bring you the "fuel injected" audio slideshow version of "ObamaPhobia," my presentation delivered July 19th, 2008 at the NetrootsNation conference in Austin.

The "Gilly"

I just want to say how honored and proud I am to have been awarded the first Gilliard Grant of Merit for Excellence in Journalism and News Blogging this morning at Netroots Nation.

Come Say Hello

I'll be speaking Saturday on the "Don't Think of Violence" panel, organized by Jeffrey Feldman of Frameshop, and featuring George Lakoff, David Niewart of Orcinus and Firedoglake, and Andrea Batista Schlesinger.  Given Jeffrey and George's formal expertise in linguistics and political framing, I'm honored to expand the focus in...

On And Off The Grid

You remember the NorCal calamity two years ago when I was trying to boost the signal from the fire station?

BAGnewsNotes: Mission To Denver

I'm proud to announce that BAGnewsNotes has been awarded blogger credentials to cover the Democratic National Convention.  In Denver, I'll be working closely alongside photojournalist and BNN contributer Alan Chin (continuing our work from New Hampshire and Ohio); looking closely over the shoulder of the visual MSM; tapping the...

BagNewsSalon: "Pictures in the News": Spring ’08

This Sunday at 7pm EST, BNN presents another 90-minute edition of the BAGnewsSALON. As previous, we will be discussing key images that have graced The BAG over the past two weeks.  (If not for the length, we were going to call it:  "'The Miley; Sadr City; Jeremiah Wright Meets LBJ;...

The BAGnewsNotes Visual Newsfeed

If you haven't yet focused on it, there is a new feature of the site that I'm particularly proud of.  It's the BNN Visual Newsfeed and it's sitting right over there in the left column.

BAGnewsSALON 3.30.08

Thanks to all who came by Sunday for the BAGnewsSALON. If you missed it, no worries, there will be many more.

Help Grow The BAG

If you dig any post at BNN, click on "Email This" at the bottom of any entry, and share it with some friends.  Or click "Add This" to bookmark, stumble, digg, or facebook -- if that's a verb now, etc.)

More Old Time Pun From The BAG

Amadinejad in Baghdad, Ashley Dupré doing The Times, Britney shot by The Atlantic, Hillary and Barack in bed at 3 AM, vintage Ferraro, memories of Bush on the troop circuit, Silda and Eliot in happier times, Hillary's locker room press placement, a smog alert in Tiananmen, Barack and Tony, girls cheating on Hillary, and a link to No Caption Needed over...

BagNewsSalon: The Korengal Valley View

Today at 4pm PST/7pm EST, BAGnewsNotes presents "Reading the Pictures: The View From Korengal Valley."  This 90 minute discussion is the first meeting of the BAGnewsSALON, a real-time discussion forum dedicated to the singular analysis and discussion of social and political images.

Your BAG

For five days, I'm turning The BAG completely over to the readership.  (Because I'm told people come here as much to hear their take as mine, I say, all the better.)

Campaign Visuals In the Age of Facebook

Specifically, though, its an analysis of an image he shot on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, and a look at how campaign coverage can be seen to reflect a "Facebook aesthetic."  Ferry is more well known for his work in and about Columbia.  The part of his bio...

State Of The BAG

Because it's been four years since this site trained its focus to analyze political imagery (during the '04 election) and also because I've been doing an awful lot of experimenting over the past month or two in both approach and format, it seemed like a good time to check...

...Stay Tuned ( image © Alan Chin.  Concord, New Hampshire.

The BAG Remains Open

Remember last August when I was in the back hills between Watsonville and Aptos trying to blog by bootlegging a signal from the local fire station?...  As a holiday greeting, I offer you this image from Jan Von Hollenen.  With all the tough and often cynical imagery we look...

Taking My Cue

If Ron Paul can take a short rest on a long march... I guess The BAG can too.