The Flogging
Tareq Salahi and his wife Michaele. The high priest and priestess of "look at me."
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Your Turn: Haiti, On a Not-Insubstantial Level, A Show
For days now, we have been flooded by absolutely horrific, increasingly grizzly and often factually fragmentary images pouring out of Haiti and distributed not just via broadcast, but faster and more widely than ever before, through the proliferating and voraciously "page view" hungry on-line media.
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Colorful Haiti
It's only honest to say a certain percentage of disaster photos rise to the top as much for their color and their beauty.
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Model Candidates
Boston.com's Scott Brown slideshow reveals how much national candidates, in our infotainment culture, are now looking straight out of Hollywood.
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Obama the Double Agent?
And what, I wonder, was going on in the mind of this illustrator, and, especially, the editors of the Times Opinion section, not to notice, let alone, head off even the possible association of Obama to the evil doers?
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Ailes, FOX, Foxes
The other message here, whether we're talking FOX or The Times, forget about Roger Ailes, is that sex sells.
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John and Elizabeth Edwards: Psycho Mutants, or Just Political Run-of-the-Mill?
The critical take-away here is to avoid vilifying or pathologizing John and Elizabeth Edwards, then walking away. The point and the opportunity, instead, (although lost on NY Mag) is to appreciate how much personality framing propagated by the handlers and perpetuated by the media makes it near impossible to...
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Playing the Carter Card
The cheap association to Carter is as good as writing "wimp" across Obama's forehead."
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Beyond the Rah-Rah (For a Change)
It's actually unusual to see a media picture of a soldier and his family going to pieces before shipping out.
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Your Daily Moment of Spin (10/7/10)
Your Daily Moment of Spin: People Magazine lustily photographs a Marine before he gets gets swept up in the military's Afghan surge.
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Annie/VF’s Tiger Trash
I've got three words for Annie Liebovitz's trashing of Tiger Woods on the cover of the new Vanity Fair: Naked, black(ened) thug.
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Cable’s Alphabet: " Today’s Lesson, Boys and Girls, is the Letter ‘Y’ "
Another day, another boogeyman (or boogey-state) that could come and kill you in your bed tonight.
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(A Photo-Activist Take on the) ’09 Photos/Covers of the Year: One of "Them"
Looking back at the photos of the year, what's one more reprehensibly act of scaremongering by the traditional media at the expense of the Muslim world?
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The Best of the BAG Decade: Heavies and Heroes, Pt. I
(The Best of the Bag Decade is our end of the year, end of the decade look at some of the best BAGnews posts and analysis.) Politicians and newsworthy figures often find themselves analogized with favorable and unflattering figures. Sometimes they do it to themselves. The BAG archive shows...
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a.) Afghanistan b.) Obama
It's interesting how TIME's editors visually weighting the past year.
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TIME’s Man Person of the Year
This decade-ending TIME Person of the Year cover can be seen to document the final standings in the class war, the asset-owners -- particular through big media's lens -- having triumphed over the wage-earners.
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Maddow: Curing What Ailes Us
With her honesty, intelligence, humor and professionalism, my "next decade" prediction is that Maddow will rise to the absolute top rung of television news.
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The Sanford Trainwreck: All The Dish That Fits to Print, Post, Blog, Whatever…
If the divorce story has political relevance to Mark Sanford's character, the published photos -- of he and his wife going through the motions one last time -- are pure tabloid ... and raise new questions about the professionalism of the MSM.
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