FORTUNE: Worse for Ware?
A close up look at the Chris Ware cover rejected by FORTUNE. ...Though it won't ever see the newsstand, zoom to the bottom for some fun.
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Economist Sees Fit to Show Obama Physically Wounded
Thinking about it, it seems creepy The Economist would show Obama so beaten up after he scored such a decisive victory in the health care fight.
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The Russian Subway Bombing: Phoning it In
The Moscow subway bombing: What happens when a cell phone-equipped public in a suppressed State have the opportunity to do some citizen journalism.
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Keeping Faith with Bart / Aborting the Press
White House releases its own photo of Obama signing executive order barring health care legislation from funding abortions.
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Your Turn: Rielle Hunter Speaks Out (in Words and… Whoa!)
BagNewsNotes readers respond to G.Q.'s Reille Hunter interview and slide show, and particularly, the disconnect between the two.
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Victory at Last?
Newsweek's latest cover -- declaring Mission Accomplished again in advance of the 2010 Iraq election -- seems designed to stir buzz more than anything else.
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Reuters Calling People Crooks Over … Toilet Paper??
How many times must we suffer through this same kind of character assassination by the media in criminalizing behavior that, under catastrophic circumstances, is normal and expectable.
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Donald Trump Points to Can of Spray Tan, Thinks It's the Sun
Yet another deep thinker fails to understand the difference between “weather” and “climate”…..Huffington Post reports on a NY Post story claiming that Donald Trump “points to snow storms and calls for Al Gore to be stripped of his Nobel Prize.” —Karen Hull (Photo: AP)
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The Largest Assault of the Afghan War (as Far as Anyone Can See)
This shot by Tyler Hicks demonstrates the profound ambiguity of the much ballyhooed "new style" offensive in Marjah in Helmand province.
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More 9/11 Gut Punch
My own take is that the display of these photos out-of-the-blue only reinforces America's near-fetishistic obsession with 9/11.
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Enjoy a Little Violence Toward Women With Your Super Bowl
And then, why the violence toward women in general, using attacks by football players to make the violence seem like an extension of the game? (This screen shot show Betty White taking it in the name of a candy bar.)
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Getting the Picture?
The situation between this Israeli settler and this evicted Palestinian woman is obviously tense, but what's going on? Are we supposed to guess?
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Keeping Priorities in Order
Let the rest of the world worry about Haiti. It's Superbowl Week.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Some More)
Why another cover (this, from the New York Times Magazine, about the domestic terrorist threat of Islamic terrorism -- especially the same week when Terrorist and Pro-(unborn)Life activist Scott Roeder is convicted of killing an abortion doctor?
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Now What, Mommy? — (Updated)
If, at the end of the week, the White House was already framing Obama 2.0 as more populist, pointed and accessible, TIME begged to differ.
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Why and How I Lost It Yesterday (Over CNN "Getting Off" On a Haitian Victim Rescue)
I confess. I lost it yesterday. If you saw my post (Please Stop, Anderson. Just STOP), I appealed for readers to contact CNN and use the Twitterverse to complain about Anderson Cooper's visual exploitation of the Haitian people. Because many of you wrote for more explanation, let me explain what...
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Please Stop, Anderson. Just STOP.
This is a message to Anderson Cooper and CNN... As American citizens concerned about the humanity of the Haitian people, the sensationalist and self-promoting tendencies of American media and the power of pictures, we urge you to: Please stop using the camera to rob people of their dignity when...
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