The "It" Girl
But, considering the lead article it accompanied (Bush Cites Gains But Sees No Cuts In Troops In Iraq - link), word and image could not get further apart.... And the story is, all that Pentagon talk about troop reductions started making Bush quite uncomfortable (given rising troop loses and...
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Giving Darwin The Finger
This is one of those images that makes me glad the BAG has developed such a keen group of readers and co-analysts. I’ll give you some of my takes, and then I’ll leave it to you to peel more layers. Here’s what I’ve got: 1. We know the right...
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Turn Off at the High Road
tell a friend about this image On first pass, you’d assume that this was the visual high point for Team Bush in the Cindy Sheehan standoff. If you didn’t know better, you might even think that Bush men Stephen Hadley (on the ground), Joseph Hagin (in the chair) and...
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Nobody Here But Us Cactus
Whether the editors planned it or not, the two stories on page A13 of yesterday’s NYT create a poignant juxtaposition. The Bumiller story on top sets up the Bush vacation (Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, Redefining ‘Vacation’ – link). The story below (Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One...
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Ground Zero
Any thoughts on why the MSM practically ignored the 60th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki this past week? Is it because the worldwide nuke situation is so unstable that nobody wants to look too closely? Or, could it be that the media would rather let...
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Not Exactly On Paar
A lot of people have had a lot to say about "Plame Game" commentator Robert Novak walking off a CNN set last week. From a visual standpoint, what I found disturbing was how the NYT Week in Review equated it to Jack Parr walking off the Tonight Show set...
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Your Turn: Fear of the Dark
In the wake of the London bombings, a number of op-ed pieces have begun to appear defending the use of racial profiling in random searches and security checks. This illustration accompanied such an article last week in the NYT. What I can figure out, however, is where the illustration...
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Your Turn: Intelligent (Graphic) Design
…Now that President Bush has formally endorsed the pseudo-intellectual amalgam of scientific revisionism known as "Intelligent Design"… …AND the New York Times has created the blasphemous precedent of adopting the presumptuous term (without quotes!) as theoretically equivalent to the most rigorously vetted science… … it leave the BAG no...
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Your Turn: Getting Framed
One reason I’ve been working the Roberts images so hard is because I’m fascinated by the rise of relatively unknown or “undefined” political figures. Bush basically came out of nowhere, and was a blank slate before he was elected. (If you remember, people were still trying to decide which...
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Your Turn: Gotta Hand It To 'Em?
In the middle of last week, Rummy makes a surprise visit to Baghdad. Is he there to hasten the completion of the Iraqi constitution? (Apparently, the talk out of Washington is that nobody reads these silly documents anyway.) Or, is here there to warn al-Jaafari to keep his distance...
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Your Turn: This Kingdom Is My Kingdom
Last month, the Christian Broadcasting Network took up the cause of a U.S. Christian flag. The proposed design was created by Marcia Thompson Eldreth of Cecil County, Md., and was inspired by a sermon she heard in church. It is intended to replace the international Christian flag (which Ms....
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