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...
Continue ReadingOne 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....
Continue ReadingI’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...
Continue ReadingThis 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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Continue ReadingO.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...
Continue ReadingYou 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....
Continue ReadingHere’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...
Continue ReadingJust 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.
Continue ReadingBecause 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...
Continue ReadingSometime 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...
Continue ReadingI 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.)
Continue ReadingI 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!
Continue ReadingPerhaps 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....
Continue ReadingIn 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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