TODAY in Afghanistan
Before Defense honcho Bob Gates had his first press conference with Karzai after the surge announcement, we see Gates kicking off his week "in country" with Today Show's smiley face Matt Lauer, surely a dose of comfort for the uncertain American audience.
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Bow This!
Barry Blitt's cartoon -- marking his triumphant return to the Oval Office -- is more than just funny. It's also a statement that this "liberal media" Palin and the wingnuts are constantly referring to is as real as Santa.
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Shafting Tiger and Obama: That Sexually-Suggestive Golf Digest Cover
For whatever drama the new Tiger/Obama Golf Digest cover kicks up since Tiger hit the tree, it only gets in the way of seeing how sexually and racially exploitive it was in the first place.
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More "Power"
The BAG is still looking at the New Yorker "Portraits of Power" series, this time trying to figure out why Italy's perv Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was justaposed with Argentina's (attractive) Cristina Fernandez.
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Whaaaaaaa!!!!!
After sacking hundreds of dedicated staff members, shutting bureaus, cutting news coverage and photo assignments, it’s mind blowing to see TIME dig deep into its pockets to spend a small fortune for a picture of a freaked out baby show shot with a tricked out camera.
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The Surge: If America is Really Looking At Resuscitating the Afghans….
The reason this photo touches a nerve right now is because it hits, in the most graphic and "unspun" way, at America's frenzied resuscitation effort in propping up Afghanistan, and especially, its military.
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The Most Scandalous Picture Inside the White House Tent
The much bigger "White House gatecrasher" question is why Katie Couric and America's top network (so-called) journalists would be regular fixtures at the Administration's first State Dinner.
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Who’s In The House
Why photos of Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the White House gatecrashers -- otherwise, a superficial story lapping up attention in a holiday news vacuum -- have the gut-level impact they do.
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How Great Buildings Fall… (psst: Cheney in 2012!)
Does Newsweek cover, "crashing the government" into the ground, simply play as a Cheney '12 ad?
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Big Cheney, Little Joe
This small, distant and unplugged NYT Mag cover photo of Biden makes Biden look pretty emasculated.
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Oprah, Sarah and the Girls
Beneath the made-for-TV Palin family book tour, you can see the tension.
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Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down
Palin might be bad for the GOP, but she's certainly not hurting the cheese ball and sex-starved news business any.
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100% of Your Weekly Dose of Terrorism Panic
What is especially warped about the new TIME Hasan raccoon cover is how the "psycho x-ray" effect turns what is otherwise a tragically complex story into a one-frame horror movie.
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Your Turn: Milking It!
Can I get your thoughts/captions on this? (Also notice, by the way, that Nadya Suleman's full name doesn't even appear in the story till last line of paragraph three.) (photo: Gillian Laub for The New York Times)
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Goodbye, Dobbs … For a Minute
Daylife has a characteristic photo of Lou Dobbs in the midst of an anti-racism protest.
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Surprising Lessons (How News Magazines Can Use Iconic Pictures to Keep the Neocon Dream Alive)
With Obama still assessing options in Afghanistan, this photo of Americans bailing from South Vietnam from the embassy roof is one loaded and thoughtless image to throw on the national newsstand.
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Health Care Victory, Stage 1: And What Would Losing Look Like?
That's quite a dodgy photo of Obama and Congressional leaders leading today's NYT marking the historic passage in the House of health care reform.
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Pipe Dream Come True
Where does The Economist "get off" capturing the fall of the Berlin wall anniversary this way?
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