Photo of a Dying Marine: The Larger View
BAGnewsNotes offers a few takes on the controversy surrounding the release of a photo showing fatal injuries to a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan.
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The DeLay Morph: Goodbye Hammer, Hello Twinkletoes
If the image seems superfluous, validating how Tom Delay has found his level as a has-been anchoring a cheap reality show, ABC in fact has afforded him the perfect platform.
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Your Turn: Glamour’s "Astonishing" "Average Size" Woman
I'm interested in your take on the photo, and buzz, surrounding the photo of "average size" model Lizzi Miller in the latest issue of Glamour.
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Not Delivering "High-Decibel Rants," I Guess All Those Dittoheads — Oops, I Mean, Citizens — Must Be "More Reasoned Voices"
I guess all those Dittoheads, -- oops, I mean, citizens -- attending health care meetings and not delivering "high-decibel rants" must instead represent "calmer, more reasoned voices."
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New York Mag's Selling (and Selling and Selling Out) of the President
New York Magazine's article about Obama's "media blitzkrieg" ("The Message Is the Message") ends u reinforcing one of the central and most simplistic attacks on Obama -- that he's overexposed.
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Let's Play Hardball
Chris Matthews provides William Kostnic his 15 minutes of fame for bringing a 9mm pistol to Obama's health care rally in Portsmouth, N.H.
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Note to CBS: Quit Encouraging The Rioters
How simply and plainly can one say this? Specter was not shouted down. Specter was not even close to being shouted down.
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Noble Savage
The New Yorker article and the illustration paint Michael Savage more like a cranky uncle than the bilious media personality he is.
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Target: We Own You
WAPO ombudsman catches Living section having photoshopped Target logo onto hipster's arm.
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Not So Subliminal CBS News Take-Away: Gates a Criminal
Yeah, it's not like CBS is playing the race card using visuals like these to tell the Gates story, right?
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Obama Feeling The Heat? …Or, Would Cable Have It So?
Like it or not, what Obama has cooking is an incredibly complex (and necessarily protracted) process of give-and-take going on across the broadest spectrum of political and industry stake holders. Unfortunately, you would barely appreciate it given the media framing.
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The Pathology Report on Obama’s "Comatose" Health Care Presser
It's really un-friggin-believable that the press is blaming Obama tonight for their own bad press conference.
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Afghanistan: It’s All Good
The Marine in the foreground escaped. But two of them didn't, which makes me think that the emphasis on the former is an example of the disconnect between these wars we keep getting ourselves into and the all-too-familiar tendency tendency to deny or romanticize.
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Afghanistan: On The Rise
With American casualties on the rise as the result of the U.S. escalation, what is the chance of this kind of imagery -- amidst the noise of ultimately uneventful happenings like the the Sotomayor hearings or the G-8 summit -- capturing domestic attention?
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Malia, Peace Signs and Bottom Feeders (Political as well as Journalistic)
Someone please save us from a conflict-hungry and gossip-starved media forced to enter this week with no Michael Jackson to pick over and faced with the not-so-juicy prospects of a slam-dunk Sotomayor confirmation to otherwise go to work on Obama's first daughter, Malia.
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Your Turn: Vatican Pomp and (This) Circumstance
I think this photo -- of First Lady Michelle Obama leaving the Vatican after meeting Pope Benedict XVI with the President -- actually has a lot to say about the recent steady stream of political photo ops.
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Reuters Confuses Obama With Berlusconi
Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate
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The Third Crusade
What marks the photos and slide shows supposedly illuminating us about the war in Afghanistan is their almost singular banality.
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