The Kerry Album: NYTimes Returns To (De)Form
On Monday, the NYTimes offered respectful photo coverage of John Kerry. (They actually ran a JFK version of the “candidate in the adulating crowd” shot –which is almost a daily staple for Bush.) The improvement, however, only lasted a day. This (Tuesday) morning, the two candidates appeared on page...
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Just Drop The Big One
One of my younger, but quite politically astute visitors — who shares my feeling that JibJab is overrated — sent me this. He was insistent I run it. It’s cheesy, but Randy Newman seems particularly appropriate right now. I especially liked the bit in front of the United Nations....
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Map Quest
I’ve been put out about Congressman Tom (“Reprimand Me Again”) Delay’s redistricting power play for over a year now. That’s six Texas congressional seats he secured for the Republicans, in spite of the courageous battle state Democrats waged before going down. This week, however, the Supreme Court ordered a...
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Where The Buck Never Stops: More Media Bias
This lead for Newsweek’s on-line campaign coverage is a good example of how the media gives Bush a free pass. In presenting two articles comparing the candidates qualifications, it contrasts Bush the CEO with Kerry the Senator. Whether or not anyone has thought it through, juxtaposing Kerry’s twenty year...
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More on BulgeGate: George of the Pod People
(source: happygolarry.com) (from: jillian. She contributes rants here.)
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Which Times Gives Kerry A Better Time? (Or: You Wouldn’t Be Getting Statistical On Me Now, Would You?)
O.K., let’s give credit where credit is due. The NYTimes (finally) did better, photo-wise, by Kerry on Sunday. They not only had this shot on the website… (Kerry and crowd in the same picture) …they also had a more unbiased shot of him in the dead trees edition. Before...
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Draft THIS!
You might have seen this already. If not, check out Ohio Representative Tim Ryan’s comments on the House floor before a vote to restore the military draft. The consensus view is that this is the kind of guy / passion / language the Dems need more of. Link here....
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There They Go Again: Saturday’s Installment of the NYTimes’ Kerry Campaign Photo Coverage
Here’s my mark-up of the latest NYTimes Kerry shot (Saturday’s paper –page A11). I give them credit for finally including a group of people in a photo of Kerry. However, the fact these people are isolated in the background; the secret service guys bear no personal connection to the...
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The End Game
Just a couple more weeks, then the only thing we’ll have left to worry about is “who won?” (c)2004 Rand Careaga/salamander.eps. More images here.
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Defining the NYTimes’ Photo Bias: (Or, Kerry Still Getting Short End of the Pic)
Because I’ve been on something of my own campaign regarding (what I see as) bias in the NYTimes campaign photo coverage, I thought it might help to be more specific about it. I was thinking, for example, how I would lay it out to the Times editors. So here’s...
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Make Up Sex: The Ongoing Saga of the NYTimes Political Photo Coverage
Sometime in the summer, I started a blog category called “Leading Photos.” Inspired by the unconventional cover photos in the NYTimes, I would occasionally post the most interesting shots while offering various wry suggestions as to their subtext. (Example 1, Example 2) If you’ve been following the BAG, you...
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Scribbler In Chief
I know this is completely frivolous, but it got a laugh out of me. The premise is, simply, that these people obtained the “notes” Bush was talking during the second debate. View here. (from: jillian. She contributes rants here.)
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Border Report
I scored it: Kerry 55, Women 34, God 32, Tony Soprano 16, Bush 15, Accountants 14, Congress (-1), Teresa (-4). …But seriously — the cartoon is coming!
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It’s Undebatable: Bush Angry, Defensive and Going Down
Perhaps the best analogy for this exhaustingly long Presidential campaign is that of a boxing match–each man mercilessly attacking, and then fighting to get off the ropes. Following this logic, you could say that the man most likely to fall is the one on defense in the late rounds....
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Crude Excuses
In his latest fallback position on Iraq, President Bush used last Friday’s debate to justify attacking Iraq because of problems with the United Nation’s Oil for Food program. The President intimated that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he was subverting the U.N.’s rules of containment for his own...
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