The NYT's Edwards Clip Job
Maureen Dowd - What's she got against John Edwards? http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/4/21/21163/8939 Kurtz: Break Girl http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/24/BL2007042400478.html In the Beverly Hills Style: Candidate’s $400 Coiffure By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: April 20, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/politics/20edwards.html not linkgened http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/us/politics/23web-nagourney.html On the Campaign The Birth of the ‘Breck Girl’ Story Line By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: April...
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C BS Does Chapel Hill
Why did this one screen shot from the Couric - Edwards interview pop up in the Edwards newswire thread yesterday? Could it be because the network percieves it has problem from that emotionally autistic excuse for an INTERVIEW.... Wonder if this is the most sympathetic image they could come...
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Your Turn: Chapel Hill
Elizabeth, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, listens during a press conference called to announce the return of her cancer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Elizabeth said that the former US senator would continue his run for the presidency.(AFP/Getty Images/Sara Davis) touches him Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards(L)...
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Vote Different
Let's take a look at the frame ad man Phil De Vellis fit around Hillary Clinton in the Indie/pro-Obama "Vote Different" ad.
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The Conservatives' Undertaker
How pathetic for McCain. The campaign hasn't even gotten going yet, and he's framed as the poster boy for a suddenly drowning movement.
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Law And Order Candidate
At first, I thought today's LAT on-line headline about the potential presidential candidacy of Fred Thompson was a bit of a joke. But that was before I clicked through to the article and saw the accompanying photos.
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Obama's Mosque
Although Obama has made known he attended an Islamic school for a couple of years, the Times seemed intent on nailing him for a lack of specificity about his religious curriculum and occasional prayer attendance.
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Looks Like A Runaway
In an extreme example of how visual information can take on a life of its own, these two images accompanied a NYT article this week on the "Battle for Black Votes." According to the images, at least, Obama has cleared up questions about his racial identity and is apparently...
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See BS
Here's the screen shot the NYT ran this week noting McCain's choice of "formal" presidential announcement.
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Alan Chin From New Hampshire: The Obscure Object Of Desire
Last week, Alan Chin sent The BAG a new set of images -- this time from the campaign trail. They were taken in New Hampshire a couple weeks back. While struggling to make sense of them, what struck me most was Alan's note of frustration.
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Your Turn: Ball Room Conversation
I was interested in your take on this photo. It accompanied a recent NYT story titled: "In Iowa, the Living Room Has Fallen Out of Favor." The gist of the piece is that candidates, for the first time, have abandoned the more intimate form of early primary campaigning.
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Oscar As Metaphor
How perfect. Just three days before the awards show, and TIME plays the hype to imagine Hillary as Bette Davis, the "great but aging actress" in All About Eve, and Obama as the (female) ingenue looking to take her down.
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Couple Questions
Would we be seeing this image, however, if Maureen Dowd hadn't set off a Geffen - Clinton flame war, while accusingly referring to Hillary's campaign as "Clinton Inc.?"
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While Dems See Red, McCain Banks Green
PR-wise, McCain started things rolling a week ago at the Capitol Hill G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue. In that instance, the Senator made the newswires alongside climate mega-benefactor, Richard Branson.
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The Blackish Man In America
he might as well be white" http://mediamatters.org/items/200702130003 You can't bring up anything other than that suddenly he's African-American. If you start to, you know, delve around the edges, say, "Wait a minute, isn't he mixed race?... Can I even say that without somebody else starting a campaign saying, 'What...
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John McCain: Free At Last?
If you consider Vanity Fair's elaborate two-page photo layout of John McCain in light of the picture Todd S. Purdum paints of the candidate in this extended profile, you have to wonder what happened to McCain that allows him to run for President and still live with himself.
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The Hillary Code
Ramping up for '08, Hillary Clinton enters the contest already branded with a negatively-coded visual. The device involves her profile.
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Your Turn: Leading The Sea Change
It is clear to me now that the visual attention surrounding Hillary Clinton goes far beyond simple media hype.
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