The Michael Jackson Death Show
As the Michael Jackson passing "pushes into its second week," members of the media turn Forest Lawn Mortuary into what looks like a movie set.
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What Time Do The Checks (I Mean, The Guests) Arrive?
Must be WAPO's Milbank and Cillizza dressed for the Salon.
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The Meaning Of Michael
Interesting choice for the Newsweek cover after five days of Michael Jackson-inspired media saturation. The photo let us off the hook in confronting any complexity in regards to "the meaning of Michael."
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TIME Cover:Iran vs. Iran vs. Iran
I'm wondering what compelled TIME to make a collage for the Iran election cover in the first place?
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Your Turn: Putting the Uprising in Focus
I'm also curious how the print media might put a framing picture to the Iran uprising.
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The Colbert/Newsweek Iraq Cover (or, Someone We Admire Yelling It At Us)
Stephen Colbert turns himself into a national billboard to shout at us (through parody, of course) about the men and women who have been forsaken for carrying out a forsaken war.
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Inside Out and Upside Down
As a visual narrative, you could say this NYT Magazine cover on Obama and the health care issue is playing "the Chicago card."
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Your Turn: The Wise Latina
The place to turn for a thoughtful and robust deconstruction of National Review's weird "Wise Latina" Sotomayor cover? It's the BAGnewsNotes readership.
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Our Sunday News Show Roundup
Heads of Judiciary Committee forced to answer whether Sotomayor is "racist" on Meet The Press after watching clip of Limbaugh comparing her to David Duke.
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Your Turn: Latina Justice
This Sotomayor headline on the new TIME cover feels like a slam, picking up on the wing-nut meme that Sotomayor is a (reverse) racist.
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That ‘Latina woman’
Pairing an almost eight-year-old quote with this photo fished from the file, you can see how the media, channeling Gingrich and Limbaugh, can suggest Sotomayor as someone angry, bitter -- even "racist."
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Obama Vs. (Anybody)
Looking at this Obama/Liz Cheney comparison, it seems to reflect an instinct on the part of the media to identify and install a counter-force to Obama.
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Unique Relationships
Credit the NYT for taking dead aim at Greta Van Susteren for serving as First Dude's handler during the (weekend of the) White House Correspondents Dinner, escorting him to the garden party, the dinner and an after-party.
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NEWsweek
Here's the first Newsweek cover after the post-newsmagazine, commentary-over-reporting, up-scale make-over.
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Lara Logan And The Predator
What better way for 60 Minutes to shill for the military -- in this exclusive, suddenly-declassified look at the all-too-surreal Predator technology (the week after we blew away a bunch of Afghan civilians) -- than to soften the reality of hell-from-the-sky by focusing on the lovely Laura Logan from...
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Katie’s Embed With The Pentagon (And Their Photographer)
You know what gets me fired up (and what's consequently troubles me about love-ins like the White House Correspondents Dinner) ?
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Air Force One Photo Released (Such As It Was)
So, is the smoggier, dingier image Gawker published (also offering more of Jersey in the background) the original photo released today by the White House of the controversial Air Force One NYC fly over?
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Scoring Off John And Elizabeth
The key to understanding the latest hooha over the John Edwards-Elizabeth Edwards soap opera is to recognize that the photo above -- published far-and-wide over the past few days -- came from Harpo Productions. Besides referring to one of the world's greatest comedians, that is also the name of...
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