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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The Petraeus Women: AP Goes Tabloid
The way this story is going, I can imagine the next phase of the FBI investigation boring into why these women (or their relatives) don't have blinds on their windows.
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Can Someone Please Let Me Out?! — Instagram, Twitter and Those Freezing People Trapped at Romney PA Rally Last Night
I can't say I'm sorry Campaign '12 is ending. At the same time, however, given the wonderful Instagram window I had, I am going to miss it.
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I Had a Sad Thought about TIME's Reversible "Election Final" Cover
As a last word culminating an exhaustive and consuming multi-year process, Campaign '12 was ultimately about keeping score.
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No, Everyone DOESN'T Do It: Why WAPO's Defense of Ryan's Soup Kitchen Photo Op is Dead Wrong
I can understand the media wanting to absolve itself of responsibility in enabling the Ryan photo op and distributing the pictures, but in this case, these comparisons don't wash.
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Did Ryan Campaign Fake Photo Op at Ohio Soup Kitchen, and Did Media Enable It?
This story stands to offer one more blow to the integrity of this campaign, as well as the credibility of the media to keep politicians honest, not just serve as a PR adjunct.
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Obama on The View, Romney's Whoopi Anxiety and the State-of-the-Art White House Pop Culture Machine
When people look back and ask how Obama defeated Romney, one of the more unsung reasons will be pop culture. Because Obama has done the TV circuit so many time, his appearance on ABC’s The View this week actually had to touted as “the President and the First Lady’s...
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The State of the News Photo: Part 3 of 3
This "long read" is an online version of a talk presented June 23, 2012 at the Photoville photo festival in Brooklyn, NY about the growing prominence and editorial capabilities of the news photo.
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Some Thoughts on the TIME Clinton Globe Cover — (Yes, Husband Bill)
Pretty audacious given his wife's mandate.
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Newsweek's "Rage" Cover: Doubling Down on Islamic Hate
I have to say, it takes some doing to actually turn the cover of a national news magazine, and a supposedly mainstream on at that, into its own, one-pass version of the Muhammed hate video. It’s one thing to pose a wailing, two-fisted image as a starting point to...
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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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Brzezinski’s Vanity Fair Kick a "Pol Dance" for Scarborough
So, why did she do it? “Erotic capital” for women in broadcast journalism?
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The Corporate Invasion: DNC, RNC as Google Hang Out
Talking about the two major parties, and especially their conventions, being beholden to Wall Street and corporate interests, no organization has done a more brilliant job penetrating the inner sanctum — and doing it right out in the open — than Google. Exploiting the culture’s new media addiction, techno-love...
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Instagram and Murder
There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media the images were too immediate, too numb,...
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Woman Seduces Asparagus: Newsweek, Food Porn and the Foodie Patriarchy
The Newsweek cover positions women as neither purveyors nor consumers of culinary high culture. Instead, like the accompanying asparagus, they are objects of desire.
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Gabby and Race, Sex and Seacrest, Cold War Too! — Visual Politics of the Olympics, Week 1
One week into the 2012 London Olympics, BagNews takes a look at the political optics with sports rhetoric professor Michael Butterworth.
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Newsweek's Wimp Romney Cover
Wimp: a weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person — Websters Wimp: a weak, ineffectual, timid person. — Dictionary.com If you’re going to take as large and as low a shot as Newsweek does, you’d better be sure that your personality description counts for as much or more as your audacity....
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