"Diana at 50": Newsweek's Perverse Newsstand Seance
What makes the Newsweek cover such a horror show....
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I Seek the Presidency Not For Vanity
Is Getty having trouble taking Bachmann at face value, or is that the whole point?
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Boehner's Ciggy
If we already know Washington is a lot more like Hollywood than real life, this photo is a profoundly rare everyday visual example of it, helping us to actually see with our own eyes how little correlation there is between personality and behavior, and the communications and scenes were...
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Cheap Shots: 1st '12 GOP Debate. (Just Pointing 'Em Out.)
Thought Newt was going "Twitter-only."
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Two Versions of the Same Syria – Turkey Border Photo. Does It Make a Difference?
I'm interested in whether the two versions, the cropped version versus the full-size, really effects the meaning of the photo and alters the visual news consumer's perception of the situation on the Syrian - Turkish border.
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War is … Heaven?
Looking at this pic, it feels like the transition from war to art photography is finally complete.
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Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now?
There is something of a parallel process in play where the visual media gets to now take over the fetishizing of the Congressman, it's own prurient interests driving their own creating and posting of tawdry pictures of him.
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Mitt on the Great White Way
Here's a few points deconstructing the Newsweek Mitt Mormon cover. (Or, a few points on Newsweek's Mitt Mormon destruction cover.)
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Meghan's Pad and the Double Dip
Highlighting Meghan McCain as a "real estate showoff" seems remarkably ironic given today's demoralizing housing news.
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Attack on the Heartland
I'm not sure if this is a media phenomenon, a cultural reflex, or both, but why does the coverage of U.S. catastrophes seems to automatically and fundamentally activate a patriotic response, as if the disaster is somehow an attack on the country?
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part IV
We conclude our series remembering Chris Hondros: Tyler Hicks, Darren McCollester, Shannon Stapleton, James Pomerantz, and Bruno Stevens. Additional photos and videos by Tim Fadek, Mark Ovaska, and Alan Chin.
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Newt, Glitter and the Gotcha Media
Maybe the real discussion we should be having here, especially after a member of Congress was attacked and maimed in Tucson this year, is not just how to elevate the discussion and encourage a more constructive atmosphere in Washington and in the media, but, bottom-line, how to physically protect...
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Another Picture of Normalcy from Afghanistan: What Would Tweedledee and Tweedledum Say?
One more scene of the normalization of life in Afghanistan. It appeared prominently at nearly every one of the mainstream media slideshows that I visited, Only one, though, seemed to have challenged the theme of normalcy.
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Picturing Arnold the Philanderer = Very Old News
Why anybody, especially the media, would even bat an eye over yesterday's disclosure of Schwarzenegger's love child and at least a ten year infidelity occurring right under the nose of his wife and his family is ludicrous.
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Newsweek Having it Both Ways with Sexy Callista
If NewsBeast is ultimately interested in playing every angle and buttering up everybody while building its own brand, it does so perfectly here.
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The Real Trump Take-Away: Media-Induced Scratch-and-Claw
Given the media’s complicity in the production of a pseudo-debate between The Donald and Obama, one thing we can be sure of heading into Campaign 2012 is that no criticisms of news-as-infotainment will be heeded.
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