NYT Mag Puts an Eye on American Workers. What's with the Sterilization?
An insight into the American worker? An illustration of the human dimension of the economy? These images convey a troubling uniformity in their Stepford-like lack of affect. Far from the condition of insecurity, a condition we'd be able to tell through some form of fresh expressiveness, the only emotion...
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Big Media Sent 3 Of My Favorite War Photographers to Afghanistan And What They Brought Back Were The Near-Same Medevac Shots
What really dismays me -- the Afghan war crying out for context as far as big media is concerned -- is how three major organizations could send out three of the best photographers in the business and, within the space of just over two weeks, proudly publish nearly the...
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James Bond Aside, Beck Has Been Swinging Free For Years
What the Twitter buzz around this screen grab did contribute to the conversation since the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords is the importance of logic, factual accuracy and coherence. The reality is, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the far right have been consistent in stoking up the populace and...
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The Old Heave Ho
I'm wondering what you thought of the tone of this opera-like media fancy (as well as the analogy to the original Tea Party itself) in light of the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords?
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I Love This Photo of Fabienne Jean. And That's What Worries Me. (Updated Again.)
Even though the NYT article completely downplays it, Ms. Jean is not a Haitian everywoman, thus someone randomly singled out by The Times as a lucky recipient of international care and aid. Rather, she is a beautiful and known Haitian, the kind who has drawn this kind of...
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Ice Capades
Contrary to what you see here, Palin and ABC are actually piggybacking off each other.
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Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Waiting For Beck
Waiting for Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, where he performs "America's First Christmas" Wednesday. But most people are more worried about survival.
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Return of the Big Dawg
Touted as a major Friday afternoon White House PR surprise aimed at pulling wavering Dems into the fold on "the great GOP Tax fold/compromise," did Clinton provide any new argument or "substantive anything" to validate his presence in the WH Press Room?
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Wednesday Round-Up: Taxing Times; Target Assange; Picturing Edwards
Bernie's not buying it. Assange not quite bound, but gagged. The Edwards' -- for the love of power.
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Visual Demonization: Osama bin Assange?
It would have been noteworthy just to callout the framing of this online equivalent of a post office wanted poster, framing Assange as international "public enemy number #1." Where the piling-on splashes into the gutter, though, and should bestow shame on any online photo editor who would consider...
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SNL's "Cold Opening" Goes Wild on Hillary's "Private Parts"
Certainly, the “private parts” of male politicians have served as punch lines for late night comedians, but those jokes typically lampoon something that the male politician did. These jokes about Hillary Clinton make fun of something that she is.
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World Media Sinks to TMZ Level over Wiki-leaked Diplo-Chatter
It seems the flood of unvarnished diplo-chatter revealed by the latest Wikileaks leak has provided media, especially visual media, a field day to dish dirt on world leaders rather than really dig for photos that cast a clearer light on all the new information.
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Spencer Platt: Journey Through Cholera
Spencer Platt describes the moral uneasiness of working in Haiti during cholera outbreak.
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Thoughts on the Palin NYT Mag Cover: Like She’s So "Homemade"
2. Hmm, 8 out of 10 Team Mamma Grizzly members are ... Poppa Grizzlies.
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Kicking off Bush Week with Mom, Baseball (and the Brother or Sister He Never Had)
How does NBC lead off "Bush Week" as the network that scored the kick-off interview to the week long marathon of Bush re-entry and reconstitution? With baseball, Texas, a focus on ancient history, a vivid painting of radical anti-abortion imagery and Mom.
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GOP Bait-and-Switch
Can they govern? Yeah, they can govern the menu at the next Jim DeMint BBQ party.
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The Power of Newsweek Ramming Rush Down Our Throats Four Days Before the Midterms
With covers, it’s all about timing, baby. And oh, how sweet that the struggling-for-life Newsweek unveils this seemingly “good anytime,” fair-and-balanced ranking issue today, although the issue, “on its face,” is dated December 8th, the Monday following this coming Tuesday’s critical election. There’s that, of course. And then, there’s...
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