Madoff’s Artist Genius
Considering Bernard Madoff may well go down in history as not only Wall Street's biggest swindler, but also a Ponzi scheme master who would have put Ponzi to shame, it's rather ingenious of him to have posed for the New York Times way back when in front of his...
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Power Backlash
The media is starting to turn on the upper class. But is it just the fashionable thing to do?
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Economic Descent
As someone perpetually frustrated over the variety and creativity of business images, this jumped out as a counterpoint to all the charts and graphs I've been seeing lately.
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Your Turn: God’s Bailout
I'm interested in your thoughts on this imagery. The scene is The Greater Grace Temple, an 8,000 member Pentecostal church in NW Detroit. Three hybrid SUV's, each representing one of the three U.S. automakers, were melded into a service yesterday to ask for God's help in delivering government support...
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Media’s "Big Three" Morality Tale: Shaming Detroit (While Wall Street Walks)
What was completely predictable, if thoroughly heavy-handed, was the way the visual media shaped this morning's "The Return Of The Auto Executives" into a classic morality play
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Your Turn: Black Friday
Shoppers burst through the doors at the Wal-Mart in Fair Lakes Center when the store opened at 5 a.m. Friday morning
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Detroit Story Descends To Perp Level
ABC uses undercover video techniques to hammer U.S. auto industry executives.
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Paulson: Just Write It Down!
On view here is a wonderful visual metaphor of Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary as dictator.
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Karl Escapes Citizen’s Arrest, Natch
of Rove being accosted on stage on Tuesday at a mortgage bankers convention in San Francisco. (It's the pic the NYT ran, and which nearly everyone else seemed to use.) My first take had to do with the visual media fronting for Karl once more, avoiding the instant where...
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Bringing Up The Rear
Last night's presidential debate makes me even more convinced of how significant picture this is. It was taken on ...... and shows Treasury Secretary Paulson meeting with the press after .......
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Black Car Limos
Not since those days after Katrina struck have I felt this much anger, frustration and embarrassment over the lack of principled political leadership and fundamental social justice in this country.
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Cry Me A River
No matter what kind of fallout lies ahead, I believe these pictures will be met not with joy, but with a satisfaction by "folks on Main Street," simply for the fact the ruling class didn't get what it wanted.
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Bell Tightening On Wall Street
With the Wall Street bailout set for Congressional passage today, I offer you an ironic counterpoint.
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John McCain and "Freddie" Davis
In contrast to the warm-and-fuzzy image of Rick Davis and John McCain the NYT used in their background piece this morning, this shot reveals the take-no-prisoners "steel" (steal?) of the Freddie Mac lobbyist.
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A Little Fire On Capitol Hill
I have to tell you, today has been one of the most chock-full visual news days I've seen in a long time. Palin at the U.N. Bush at the U.N. (showing his face in public, whereas he's mostly been hiding out from the Wall Street crisis and his record...
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King Henry IX
To put a Shakespearean twist on Paulson's role is to anticipate that he set the terms, and we folded like subjects.
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Wall Street Nightmare
Looking at these photos through the lens of the current financial convulsions, they read much differently, I'm sure, than when they were shot in 2003. BagNewsNotes contributer Nina Berman's photos anthropomorphize, and give nightmarish expression to my most terrifying fears of a Wall Street disaster.
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