Occupy Wall Street? …Um, Look Again.
It only takes an instant to absorb the basic elements of this picture for you to think, "Oh, one more #OccupyWallStreet photo, right?
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: Nights at Camp Hashtag
If the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Hippie Kooks
The best thing you can say about big media's token coverage of "Occupy Wall Street?" At least it's artful.
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Class Warfare (Top Down)
I'm sure a John Boehner would point to a photo like this, of all those young and disenfranchised Americans marching on the Stock Exchange, as evidence of class warfare. Except...
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Hurricane Irene: For New York City, The Storm That Wasn't
Dodging a bullet, and crying wolf: Hurricane Irene in New York City.
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The Dollar-Store Economy (and a Chance to Unload, God Bless You!)
Beyond the one-liner, there is something unique and clever about this picture, delivering an effect that is extremely rare, at least for an editorial photo.
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Thuggish Cameron Thinks Graffiti's Got His Back
Don't they get that graffiti, symbolic of the alienation, frustration, and yearning for identity and expression that underpins it, is the exact thing Cameron is denying?
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New Yorker U.S.S. Economy Cover: Smell of Titanic in the Morning
And the guy probably shorted the company that insured the boat!
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Romney: My God, You're Just Human Beings?
If Romney's statement that "corporations are people" was stunning, just as telling was his reaction when people started laughing out loud.
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Did Will and Kate See Skid Row? Did Anyone?
The media and the royal couple made a lot out of visiting L.A.'s most desperate neighborhood. When it came to showing anything of the locale, however, the visual media mostly missed the opportunity.
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