Who's Who Isn't
Besides showcasing the fallout of a "power culture," The Voice also mocks how the media glorifies it.
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Mr. Palmetto Head
Maybe it's the instinct to crown him now and be done with it (mixed with the fact boring Mitt is driving the photogs out of their trees).
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Our Take on Video Showing Marines Urinating on Taliban
For an act of humiliation, these guys are pretty discreet about showing their members.
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Your Turn: Romney Redux and the (Endlessly Flogged) Likeability Factor
Bag readers deconstruct (or re-construct) the new TIME cover in light of its earlier cousin.
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The Perry Gut Punch — But Was It Really Self-Inflicted?
If the visual media delivers the gut punch here, it's because the media set up Perry in the first place.
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Photo of Woman Stripped by Egyptian Military: Not Shamed, Not a Victim
This image does not portray a victim. It portrays a hero—a warrior waging a battle for democracy.
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"Trends in Political Photographs" – 2011
BagNews lists the top trends and themes in news photos in this "revolutionary" year.
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Our Take on TIME's Very Smart "Person of the Year" Protester Cover
What makes the cover as good as it is? Number one, it's a woman!
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Some Thoughts on the MVRDV "9/11 Exploding World Trade Center" Building
I'm a lot less concerned about MVRDV's design than I am about the hysteria it's generating. If there's really something to worry about here, it's the destruction of the opportunity for a more nuanced discussion given all the cultural, political, perceptual and aesthetic alarms going off.
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LA Times Deifies, Mythologizes Fallen Troops. What Friendly Fire?
In conjunction with Christ-like comparisons to the scene at Golgotha and parallels to Iwo Jima, the context that these Marines died as leaders in combat maintains the accepted mythology of ‘the way Americans die.’
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Zuccotti Clean Out: 24 Hours Will Tell
So the question, when we get to the end of this 24-hour media cycle, will the Reuters photo win the action for Occupy, or, will the Mayor's gambit pay off?
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Gloria Meets the Press: Our Take on the FOX Promo Photos of Herman and Gloria Cain
Nothing is more demonstrative of Cain's power relationship with women than Herman to the left, ladies to the right.
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Fukushima's Radiant Media Junket
Given Tepco and Japan's efforts to tightly contain this story, it's hard for me to look past the metaphor here of journalists, bottled up to fend off the microsieverts, being taken for a ride.
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Yes, We Cane? Some Take-Aways On Newsweek's Herman Cain Cover
I can't tell if Newsweek would like to walk this back now, or there's no downside because memories are so short and we've gotten lost in the hype-machine.
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Sexual "Hermaneutics": Bialek Accuses Cain
Because almost everything political these days seems to share some resonance with the Occupy movement, Ms. Bialek's accusations function as one more indictment of corporate culture.
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As Agitators Occupy Occupy, Will Media Call It Out?
Shame on the Sacramento Bee for attributing the violence late Thursday night to Occupy protesters when the chaos was identifiably the responsibility of an outside contingent of black bloc agitators.
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Out Fawkes-ing the Mask
Given the ambiguity right now over how to frame the movement, the exhibition of the Guy Fawkes mask by BusinessWeek serves as much to perpetuate an unease over Occupy than an invitation to better understand it.
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In "Upper Rung America," Things Break but People Aren't Left to Hang
The more I look at this illustration, the more curious it seems to get.
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