The fraud is in the perceptual deceit -- and, in exactly the same mode as the soup kitchen lie, the exploitation of charity (and charitable organizations) to perpetuate the deception.
Continue ReadingRomney Team plays with the subliminals in late campaign attack ad.
Continue ReadingIt's Romney mixing campaigning with hurricane relief on a day that he pledged would exclude the former.
Continue ReadingOne of the most troubling aspects of the Hurricane Sandy disaster in the onset, then onslaught of the storm is how little photo coverage there was of the homeless.
Continue ReadingTracking images of Hurricane Sandy: Paul Ryan/Barack Obama edition
Continue ReadingBag tracks the visual coverage of Hurricane Sandy: Mitt Edition.
Continue ReadingPresident Obama campaigns in New Hampshire, hugging babies and also adding exclamation points!
Continue ReadingHingeing his campaign in the final weeks on a bipartisan vision while actively aligning himself with the Mourdocks -- not to mention, the Ryans, for that matter -- with a radical right anti-choice agenda is sorely hypocritical.
Continue ReadingTalking presidential campaign optics, photoshop and desperation, of course we can talk about character, ethics and the compunction to mess with reality and digitally lie. If a wire photographer did such a thing, of course, he'd be headed for the abyss.
Continue Readingit seems there have been a number of signs (literally) in the last 24 hours suggesting Team Romney is identifying itself as the underdog again
Continue ReadingThis presidential marathon is going to end very soon, hopefully leaving us to reflect on other matters of impact.
Continue Reading"The Picture from Syria": An analysis of the media imagery of the Syrian civil war.
Continue ReadingWhat's fascinating is that the celebrity versus substance argument, in Obama's case, is not an either-or proposition. The truth is: Obama is (also) a celebrity, a rock star, a cultural icon.
Continue ReadingCrowley is such a wonderful photographer. I wonder how he'd describe this. Perhaps as two unusually upright, upstanding, stand up guys having a straight up moment.
Continue ReadingIf Romney knocks off Obama, one thing we can expect is a radical, and probably oddly random shift in optics.
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