That TIME Morsi Cover, Dictator-Size
Although the backstory by the editor-at-large ascribed all kinds of political mystique and geopolitical weight to Egypt's new president, TIME's choice to feature him on the cover in a super-closeup looks mighty awkward a couple weeks later.
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Ed Ou and Gaza Rainbows
Of course, the scene would be completely straight-forward … if not for that half-hopeful and wondrous, half-thoroughly ironic rainbow.
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Israel: The New Normal
The number, power and range of the recent barrage represents a new reality permanently altering the status quo.
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Gaza Press Center: State Media-on-Media Violence
That the Gaza Media Center was used by international media as well as journalists partial to Hamas, and journalists either ended up in the hospital or send running in the streets is an unacceptable threat to the press.
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Instagram: For IDF with Love
Meditating on this, I'm wondering how many other Israelis could actually be this childlike and naive when it comes to the circumstances at hand.
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Game Change for Social Media, Media and Photography: Israel, Hamas Draw Us Literally into War
We can hardly begin to understand how much the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas (and the apparently greater range of the Palestinian's missiles) have, overnight, changed the waging of war.
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Assassination by Air Strike – Our Gaza Edit
The Israel - Palestine conflict remains difficult to capture because even similar photos of one side or the other, even if they feel equivalent, are typically not because of asymmetry.
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The Petraeus – Broadwell Pictures: It's not about Sex, it's about Idolatry
What the photos offer us right there on the surface is the God-General on his throne, doing what he does best.
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BagNewsSalon: The Picture from Syria
"The Picture from Syria": An analysis of the media imagery of the Syrian civil war.
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There Are Some Pics You Just Can't Defuse: Bibi and the Bomb
How many ways was Netanyahu's performance yesterday the n-th degree of crazy? Well, here are a few.
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Through the Campaign ’12 Window: Obama, Women and the General Assembly
The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons. from: Obama’s speech to the General Assembly, September 25, 2012 If...
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What’s in a Picture? — #IslamicRage Meets #OccupyWallStreet
So many people have emailed me this photo, I wanted to hear your thoughts about it. Here’s the caption: Egyptian protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photo graffiti on a wall of the U.S. embassy during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Egyptian protesters, largely...
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Afghan Skid: A Sad Day When we Have to Resort to the Taliban for our War Media
Two significant “insider attacks” by Afghan alliance troop on U.S. soldiers, eight Afghan women killed in a NATO airstrike and an attack on a major British airbase that consumed $150 million worth of fighter jets and other things. All within the past week. And the sad truth is that,...
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Before We Start Ascribing Bad Intent to Whole Countries, Regions and Cultures…
Most of the actions in play -- between the creation of the im-Bacile Muhammed video; the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya and the killing of the ambassador; and the chest-and-drum beating for war on the part of the Israeli Prime Minister -- are not generalized or mainstream...
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Horrific Photo from Aleppo: War Porn or Stellar Journalism?
My question is: is the picture of Syrian rebels at the moment of death a stellar piece of journalism and an essential contribution to our knowledge of the Syrian civil war in particular and war overall, or is this photo more a profound illustration of voyeurism and war porn?
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Kim Jong Un Drops By
Having a healthy respect for cross-cultural differences, my inclination here is to not to trust my typical response.
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"Disappeared" Olympic 7/7 Tribute: NBC Perpetuates Myth Terror Only Happens to Americans
NBC perpetuated the myth that terror only happened to Americans. That we can't identify or relate to the loss experienced by other peoples, other nations. That we don't look or feel like everyone else.
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