Media Focus Archives - Page 17 of 44

Notes Photo April 23, 2012

Obama: Channeling Rosa Parks

At the end of the day, what Obama achieves from this brilliant White House rendition is not just a reference to Rosa and history books but a reference -- even more recently and historically -- to himself.

Notes Photo April 19, 2012

Newsweek Cover/Story: Working Women Just Want to be Dominated

Good news, ladies. Tired of being on the front lines in the War on Women? Newsweek just announced that what women really want to do is “surrender.”

Notes Photo April 5, 2012

DSK: Back on the Playground

...In the wilds of the Ukraine.

Notes Photo March 28, 2012

Reading the Pictures: Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman As Stereotypes

With new facts and alleged facts swirling and the nation paying close attention, beware the emergence of previously unseen imagery in combination with the tendency to stereotype.

Notes Photo March 22, 2012

Businessweek Obama Cover: Cocky Or Inscrutable?

I don't know if it's a race thing, a Democrat thing or just a shallow media thing where the focus remains so firmly focused on personality politics.

Notes Photo March 12, 2012

Afghanistan Kumbaya

I was already feeling manipulated by this photo in early February, and that's before things went from worse to unfathomable.

Notes Photo March 7, 2012

Time Covers: Syria Lost in the Mix

Doesn't seem like the smartest idea.

Notes Photo March 5, 2012

Iran: The Harsh Light of Western Exposure?

I'm wondering how much this treatment repurposes the photo to frame Iran as a pariah state, alluding to a day of reckoning that casts a rope around the state overall more so than the treatment and fate of individual citizens.

Notes Photo February 29, 2012

Back to X-raying Romney

BizWeek sees Romney as layers of surface. Willard meets Springsteen meets Village People?

Notes Photo February 27, 2012

Romney, Daytona and the CEO Circuit

If a lot of the media still thought the pic of the day involved Romney coming, by chance, upon a Santorum-sponsored car, still others accented Romney's "CEO problem" by leading with the shot of Mitt and the Sprint boss.

Notes Photo February 23, 2012

The Campaign Fundraiser Photo Blackout (Or: How Far Into the Smoke Can Stephen Crowley Go?)

If the overriding job of politicians these days is fundraising and money in politics is at the root of what's wrong with Washington, why is it that a virtual blackout exists on the documenting of incumbents showing their stuff at these coffer-fattening events?