I was drawn to this shot on Yahoo News today illustrating Steven Hadley’s elevation to National Security Chief. Out of all the images they could have pulled from the file drawer, why chose this one (from April 2001)? My take is that it illustrates how much the new team...
Continue ReadingIn an example of how art presages life, I had become interested lately in how much the war ( at least, the images of it) had begun to focus more tightly around Iraq’s mosques. As is my process, I had been grabbing off images and articles and putting together...
Continue ReadingHere’s an update on the LA Times pr campaign to turn an unwilling Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller into a poster boy (see previous post). In a defensive action this past weekend, the NYTimes responded by offering up their own cigarette smoking GI (Lance Cpl. Michael Pristavec, below)....
Continue ReadingYou could be inscribed in your own glory, as well — here. (from: jillian. Her dailykos journal here.)
Continue ReadingIn an impressive act of exploitation, the LATimes has done its best to gets some mileage from the image of an unwilling GI. After running a photo last Wednesday of Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller that was picked up by over 100 newspapers, the Times ran a follow...
Continue ReadingMemo to Tony: George Could Care Less About the Palestinians. send this cartoon to a friend!
Continue ReadingWith pleasure, I’ve discovered another utility — called “10×10” — that visually maps the news. (If you’ve been with me for awhile, you’ll recall my earlier fascination with the Newsmap, which I not only ran and analyzed a bunch of times, but also modified the output to actually make...
Continue ReadingHere is the shot from today’s front page NYTimes story (“Nominee for Attorney General Rides an Ideological Divide”) on Bush’s new Attorney General. Here are some impressions. Bush’s General Appearance I think it was particularly telling, in the first Bush-Kerry debate, that “W” kept reiterating how hard his job...
Continue ReadingThis morning’s LA Times has an article (registration required) entitled “2008 Run Among Kerry’s Options,” suggesting John Kerry is contemplating another bid for the presidency. During the campaign, believing that Kerry was the far superior choice to Bush, I refrained from criticizing him. If you’ve been following this blog,...
Continue ReadingAs the administration begins marketing the concept of “a new Bush,” I thought it might be useful to provide some visual evidence of how different Bush “the product” is from Bush “the man.” Earlier this year, Time Magazine did a photo journal of the campaign called “Backstage with Bush.”...
Continue ReadingJust as fast as you can call an election without counting provisional votes or looking into voting irregularities, America and the press seem to have fallen prey again to the power of the Bush PR machine. Remember when Bush was first elected, and speculation was rampant over whether he...
Continue Reading(by vawolf, via MyDD, via DailyKos): >>1% more than 50% is not a mandate but a bare, thin, majority. >>This was the largest number of people who have ever voted AGAINST a president. >>At 80% approval after 9-11 and guaranteed a landslide election by prognosticators 2 years ago,...
Continue Reading“Deficit? What Deficit” meets The (Corporate) Ownership Society (image:newseum.org)
Continue Readingsend this cartoon to a friend! (by vawolf, via MyDD, via DailyKos): >>1% more than 50% is not a mandate but a bare, thin, majority. >>This was the largest number of people who have ever voted AGAINST a president. >>At 80% approval after 9-11 and guaranteed a landslide election...
Continue Readingsend this cartoon to a friend! Okay, turning to the Senate, we now have a whole crop of Republicans who are either certifiably crazy — or who hold such hateful or prejudiced views that they might as well be. In Kentucky, we have Jim Bunning, who has been experiencing...
Continue ReadingToday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist made an empassioned plea for unity and bipartisanship in the new Senate. “It is time to heal the partisan divide and begin the process of reconciliation. Beginning last night, I spoke with many of my colleagues – Republican and Democrat – to begin...
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