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Protest Focus Photo September 11, 2013

Is USPS 50th Anniversary March on Washington Stamp Based on Steve Schapiro's Jackie Robinson Photo? and What Would That Mean?

In this day and age in which events are so thoroughly produced and packaged, how strange to consider that the iconic figure wouldn't be identified and co-branded with that event, that a person's celebrity wouldn't be utilized to transfer their personal shine to the event in question.

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Eco Watch Photo

James Whitlow Delano – Third Dispatch: Tribes Losing Rainforest Battle to the Logging Conglomerates

We found the Penan building yet another barricade along the main logging road. Yet, loggers always come back with bulldozers and sweep aside any barrier in their path.

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The Great Recession Photo September 10, 2013

Guns vs. Butter: DC Poor Lose Homes As Syria Debate Drowns Out All

The story of Mr. Coleman and the loss of his home over $134 is a troubling counterpoint to the consuming debate in DC and the press over war with Syria.

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Advertising Watch Photo September 9, 2013

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Without Your AmEx Card)

The galloping anxiety right now surrounding war, dangerous brown people in the Middle East, electronic surveillance, privacy and security agency breaches offers the perfect storm for those Orwellians on Madison Avenue to scare you into, what else, much stronger brand identification.

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International Focus Photo September 8, 2013

If Your Average US Citizen Could Make Sense of this Photo….

Given the scope of religious and cultural branches spanning the Middle East, this photo actually presents the Western media consumer with an Arab and Islamic world political knowledge quiz.

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International Focus Photo September 7, 2013

Will this (Random, Dated) Snuff Video Prevent the Attack on Syria?

With respect to everything at stake here, the bar for decisive imagery remains much higher.

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Media Focus Photo September 6, 2013

Impressive Level of Artificial Sweetener: Obama-Putin St. Petersburg Body Language

It's such a supreme example of pretending, it's the mutual recognition of the exercise that ultimately makes the contact authentic, even intimate.

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International Focus Photo September 5, 2013

Before and After the Bombing Starts: The Disconnect in 2 Pictures

It seems some variation of that Mike Tyson "best laid plans" quote is on a lot of minds these days.

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Business Focus Photo September 4, 2013

What’s So Impressive About Joe Raedle’s Climate Change Slide Show at the Denver Post

Like it or not, the photo story defies the simplistic treatment of the doomsday piece. If surprising for how politically incorrect it is, Greenlanders seem to see more than a silver lining to climate change.

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International Focus Photo September 3, 2013

White House Syria Crisis: Kerry/Hitler vs. Rumsfeld/Hussein

I'm sure this photo of Kerry and Assad drudged up by Drudge is going to get plenty of attention -- along with the resuscitation of how many Kerry French jokes and Kerry Assad-Hitler citations.

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White House-Syria Crisis: Obama/McCain

Maybe this really was a case of getting the photographer in and out that quickly, and Souza grabbed -- and the communications people published -- the best of what he got.

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Photo September 2, 2013

White House Flickr: Looking for a Leg Up on Syria

My sense of Saturday’s White House Flickr shot is that the President is trying, perhaps a little too hard, to compensate for the perceived foot dragging — as if looking for a literal leg up on the situation.

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International Focus Photo September 1, 2013

Anti-War Protests and the Media Stage. (Or: Assad Gets Around)

These discs might be accessible at the click of a button, but the uniformity and the geography makes me appreciate how much al-Assad gets around.

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