Cheney's Audacious Memoir Cover (And Claim to the Empire)
Perhaps it's his deteriorating health, though, that motivated this kind of imperial parting shot.
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Return of the Bug-Eyed Bachmann
Most people believe that we’ve moved beyond this level of sexism in our political culture, and many liberals are sanguine about the sexist implications of the recent Bachmann depictions, adopting a sort of “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .” mentality. The...
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TIME Cover: Debt Crisis Pummels America. (Tea Party Still at Large.)
Ha! This cracks me up the way the illustration incorporates not just the anchor text for the lead story (THE GREAT AMERICAN DOWNGRADE) but also the text for a, yes, “supposedly” separate story (HOW THE TEA PARTY HIJACKED AMERICA). Because both headlines are contained in the oval of the...
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The "Devil": Norway Killer Breivik Faces Court, Tabloids
It's not evil we're dealing with here, it's hate.
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Newsweek, DSK & Murdoch: Maid for Each Other
What a blatantly impressive visual device to justify this sleaze cover story, also exploiting the tabloid-void as the Murdoch empire goes limping.
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Murdoch Testimony: Early Alzheimers?
Too often, it seemed Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative or pretending to be out-of-the loop than it had to do with the fact that the aging titan might be losing his faculties.
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The Wendi Deng Show
I'm not suggesting Murdoch's new PR firm had anything to do with the shaving cream attack on Murdoch in front of the Parliament hearing Tuesday. God no. But they might keep that crackpot in mind come Christmas.
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Murdoch's Eagle
Will Heaven at the Telegraph totally captured Rupert Murdoch with this photo last week in the aptly titled post, "Rupert Murdoch takes his grisly revenge on the world." (And yeah, the Uncle Junior analogy hits where it hurts, too.)
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Cracking News Corp Open and Lachlan's Tat Too
If it feels like we're inside with the Murdoch clan (and the new heir to the monstrosity), maybe we are.
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A Cameron Photo Op Gone Awry
In a matter of a few seconds, its not Cameron and Clegg that are in charge, but David Nunn – who, as he points out, is the most ‘senior surgeon’ on the ward.
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Brit Hacking Scandal Who's (Using) Who: Cameron – Dowlers BFFs?
If the Dowler's got what they wanted yesterday, so, too -- with this photo -- did Cameron.
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Only Murdoch Mug Shot So Far is a Smiley Face
A photographer friend, responding to this pic in the NYT Lens "photos of the day" slideshow, wrote to ask why most pictures of Rupert Murdoch, since the hacking scandal broke, show him looking so upbeat. And now I'm wondering too.
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Newsweek Cover: Can Palin's Breasts Win the Nomination?
With that headline and anchor text, Newsweek truly in Sarah's backyard.
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U.S. Constitution: Amanpour, ABC Give Tea Party More Ammunition To Attack, "Not Understand"
And you wonder why the Tea Party has gained so much traction appealing to the general public over elitism.
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Hacked to Death: The Times Murdoch "News of the World" Cover
Forty-two years later, it's still about the pay-off.
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The Hacking Scandal: Shoe on the Other Foot
Given how Rebekah Brooks, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch's News International is caught at the center of a far-reaching hacking scandal, this photo is just about perfect.
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Your Turn: One of These Is Not Like the Others
Once again, we have a TIME cover tailored and tinkered with to supposedly better suit the American political climate.
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Strauss-Kahn Perp Pix: A Second Look
At his arraignment hearing slipped into history, I felt sorry I didn't post this wonderful portrait of Dominique Strauss-Kahn sitting ruefully on that bench. For a more complex photo of what's turning out to be a more complex situation, however, I like this shot quite a bit.
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