The Comeback Brand
BAGnewsNotes readers weigh in on the Obama Administration's recovery logo.
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AIG Home Tour In Perspective
Mary Huguley (legs) stands as she tries to deliver a letter to a home belonging to Douglas Poling, one of numerous executives who were recipients of a bonus from American International Group Inc.
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Traces of Everyday Life on Desolation Row
These photographs were placed on a Facebook page to provide continued documentation of the closing of the Rocky Mountain News. In the days of The Organization Man, the office was thought to be the source of Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row. When you look at the shabby, barren, modernist decor,...
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Beyond The Rhetoric
In granting Obama his gift as a confident and skillful communicator, especially via the television medium, what the photo clearly emphasizes are the limits of such skill, especially with (the country in trouble and) reporters standing by for "real" news.
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Rage Is The Rage
Newsweek, along with much of the media, is consumed right now with the theme of populist rage.
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Let's Party
I guess the first thing that gets me suspicious about these gold parties is the reference to it as a "party."
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Smelling Blood
I'm attracted to both photos for one reason. There's a overwhelming sense right now, with all the venom and retribution reverberating around Washington, of blood in the water.
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Mad Ave's Guide To Wall Street — With Free Snacks
How much is Jet Blue's clever attack on CEO's a clever play by Madison Avenue to co-opt public anger toward Wall Street?
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Tensions Rising
I'm finding the visual media more comfortable portraying people suffering from the recession as victimized and upset (in a sorrowful way) than aggrieved, stressed and pissed off.
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Slaughtering The Peacock
I'm glad James Burrows actually likened Jon Stewart to Edward R. Murrow last night because all I could think of, while watching Jon Stewart pluck out Jim Cramer's feathers in bunches, was "Frost - Nixon," "Frost Nixon."
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The Last Gig With Openings Available
The plywood panel as signature of the undertaker.
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