Bernie Between The Lines
The photo on the cover of the March Portfolio is from a cache of Madoff portraits just discovered from a ten-year-old photo shoot. I had several strong and immediate associations to this image.
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Looking Like A Million
What stands out is how much the Mumbai slum residents, under the observation of photographers and journalists, become "feel good" actors again as they share this engaging moment watching the Academy Awards on T.V.
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Rove, TwitPics, Hugs And Guns
Now that Rove has discovered Twitter and (perhaps the aptly named) Twitpics, he can self-promote in a whole new way.
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Beyond The Echo Chamber
What Charlie Crist understands and the photo demonstrates is that Obama -- a month in -- is far from weakened, far from damaged.
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Fleeing The Beltway
There is a geographic dance playing out this week between Obama, the media, and the GOP.
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Your Turn: The Light On Tim
This is a particularly strange image the NYT chose to insert in its lead article about Tim Geithner's unveling of the Administration's banking bailout plan.
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Cheap Head Lines
It's hard not to see this CNN video of Obama bumping his head boarding Marine One as a cheap visual metaphor to suggest Obama is stumbling
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Mad Men
TIME's White House photo blog calling Obama crazy -- or just his stimulus plan?
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The Real Moral Of The Phelps Bong Hit Photo? (Don’t Mess With The Sponsors.)
It seems the American public and media now largely take in stride the knowledge of someone -- such as the President, for example --- having smoked marijuana, but, at least in Michael Phelps's case, there is a completely different threshold for the image of it.
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Newsweek: Obama Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
After all the cheery analogies to FDR and Lincoln, Newsweek's employment of the "Vietnam" reference suddenly associates Obama, in big, bold letters, to LBJ or Nixon.
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On Errol Morris’s Interview: Ground Zero, And Placing Bush "In The Context Of Where He Was"
The account I found most telling in Errol Morris's interview with three wire service photo editors about the Bush era involves the editorial effort to "place" Bush at Ground Zero.
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In A Picture, What’s Wrong With American Media
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appears on his first national television appearance with Diane Sawyer, (R), January 26, 2009 on ABC News' Good Morning America, the day his impeachment trial begins in his home state.
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The Immortalizers
It's a classic, front page example of how the media tends to become profoundly focused on the politically trivial.
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Gaza By Guided Tour
Concerning yesterday's Israeli military photo op for Western reporters held just inside Gaza, it seems the primary achievement was to draw attention to the press ban itself.
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Barack Obama: TIME’s Machiavellian Leftist Of The Year (Or, Shepard Fairey Takes TIME To The Bank)
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but the TIME "Person of the Year" cover -- in an attempt to be catchy -- seems to play on the Machiavellian idea that a clever and charismatic left-wing Obama exploited a couple key issues, turned himself into a pop icon, then captured the...
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Caroline Kennedy’s Resumé?
Given this image of Caroline Kennedy sitting in front of a poster blow-up of her late father, especially paired with news stories about Kennedy pursuing the seat, many would assert what we're looking at is a resumé.
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Can Obama Escape Blago TIME Taint?
Media doing as much damage placing Obama and Blagojevich together in pictures as they are with words.
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Media’s "Big Three" Morality Tale: Shaming Detroit (While Wall Street Walks)
What was completely predictable, if thoroughly heavy-handed, was the way the visual media shaped this morning's "The Return Of The Auto Executives" into a classic morality play
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