Radical Fundamentalism and the Need for Erasure
If the erasure of Hillary and a female White House aide by Brooklyn’s Orthodox Hasidic newspaper, Der Tzitung, from the White House “Security Room” photo is informative at all, it’s to tell us that religious fundamentalism is alive and well in America, too. If it serves a constructive function, on...
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Kandahar and the Distraction War
Just thought we'd take a brief look at some routine media practices in light of the brazen Taliban assault on the government and security infrastructure in Kandahar.
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Reading The New Yorker "Erasing bin Laden" Cover: A Process, Not an Act
The thoughtful and more realistic message communicated by the latest New Yorker cover, as compared to the TIME bin Laden snuff job is...
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Narcissist! Couch Potato! Twelve-Year-Old! — DoD Spins bin Laden Watching the TeeVee
Why is the DoD video of bin Laden watching TV so much more devastating than the "rehearsal" clip also released this past weekend?
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Framing Osama (and Obama)
If the point here is that bin Laden was overly scripted -- as well as overly concerned with his image, given the fact his beard is jet black while in other time-related pics and vids it is grey -- I give the DoD and the White House about a...
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What's Wrong With TIME's X-ed bin Ladin Cover
I doubt I would have any qualms at all if TIME had X-ed Hitler, left it alone alone for 66 years, then X-ed bin Ladin. But after X-ing out three Muslims over the past eight years, today's cover (apart from the question whether bin Laden was even in Hitler's...
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part III: Tal Afar
Edward Wong of the New York Times shares the story of Chris Hondros's photographs documenting the accidental killing of Iraqi civilians by American troops in Iraq.
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part II
Alan Chin, Scout Tufankjian, and Stephanie Sinclair share their memories of Chris Hondros.
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Beached White Male? Oh, Please.
1. Don't these big news mags do this "endangered white male" thing at least once a year?
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Great Pic from the Benghazi Street, Hanging Up on 3rd World Stereotypes
Props to the NYT for this photo this morning on Libya. It high time to defy the stereotypes.
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The South Will Rise Again. (Chortle, Knee Slap)
To the extent TIME, and this new photo section, concerns itself primarily with news photos and photojournalism, a photographer actually enabling these right-wing, militia-wannabes by recreating battle scenes with them strikes an awkward note, indeed.
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Wrestling with the Apocalypse
If anything comes out of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown at all, it's a deeper understanding of how stereotypically the world relates to the Japanese.
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Angelina on the Tunisia/Libya Border
I'm not saying Angelina doesn't have an impact, but this photo is just forced and exploitive.
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Beyond Riveting
There’s nothing more “do it yourself” than being a woman scientist, and depicting Fried as Rosie does more to underscore her difference from other scientific geniuses than it does to suggest that science is no longer a boys’ club.
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Gaddafi: Beyond Shooting His Mouth Off
Cool illustration, but maybe not so clear cut. Is Gaddafi that much of a machine?
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TIME's "Meltdown" Cover: Insight, or Working Japanese Stereotype?
What I'm wondering is how much this cover frames the intense grief and loss one would see in any culture, given the circumstances, and how much the media's response is informed by cultural stereotyping, these crying image psivoting off Japanese stoicism.
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Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario Missing
We pray for Tyler, Lynsey, Stephen and Anthony's safe return.
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Diane Sawyer Watches
This "behind the scenes" photo from the ABC News show somehow struck me.
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