With the escalating violence, and the political complexity of the current crisis, however, I feel I would be negligent -- as well as hypocritical -- to simply ignore the pictorial dynamics and the actions of the visual media in handling this extremely critical Israeli, Hamas, Hezbollah, Gaza, Palestinian, Syrian,...
Continue ReadingMaybe last week's fireworks (not to mention, publicity like this) were part of the marketing campaign to move a rockets and a little plutonium.... If The Economist is trying to make a boogeyman out of Kim, didn't that strategy go out with Saddam?... They frame Kim as a man...
Continue ReadingNote: Due to a service outage, Typepad lost all data posted over the past 12 hours. I had a back-up of this entry, but unfortunately, all the comments were lost. My apologies. (click to expand) Faced with a delicate and highly complex foreign relations challenge in North Korea,...
Continue ReadingTrying to rebrand himself as the second coming of Alphonse D'Amato, yesterday's Santorum piece in the NYT chronicles Ricky's late (and lame) attempt to distinguish himself for constituent service. No wonder. The ideological extremist is getting hammered for being out-of-touch with the folks back home.
Continue ReadingNews coverage of the war doesn't usually say much about the firepower of the Iraq insurgency. As part of a general war update, however, yesterday's LAT reported that a roadside bomb had destroyed an American armored vehicle outside Ramadi, killing three G.I.'s. The story then went into some detail...
Continue ReadingIsn't it a strange twist of fate that Steven Green was featured in this Army News Service photo back on December 9th of last year in the town of Mullah Fayed?
Continue ReadingThis ad, touting the new white Sony PSP (Playstation Player), was recently launched in Amsterdam. Other sites that have run this ad (example 1, 2) ask the question: Is it racist?... In the era of "viral marketing," isn't the goal to provoke enough to generate buzz, but not past...
Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, The BAG anticipated that the Pentagon had no choice but to open up the view into Guantanamo. (And, that was before the Supreme Court negated the Bush terror prosecution strategy.) These photos, released by the military right before the court decision, seemed to anticipate the...
Continue ReadingThe Administration may be prolific in its use of symbolism, but Dick Cheney's 4th of July weekend photo op at the Daytona auto race was an absolute orgy of conservative, nationalistic, male, southern and militarist imagery.
Continue ReadingThe Administration gets completely smacked down by the Supremes for their terror detention policy and the Repugs crow how that's a good thing. The situation in Iraq keeps getting worse, with the country tilting toward civil war, and the Repugs declare how the war is their best issue. To make...
Continue ReadingIf you have a particular image to refer for comment (hopefully with some analysis of your own), provide a link to the image along with your thoughts. If we get a number of submissions, I'll post them right here in a day or so. (...Sorry, couldn't help myself. Anything...
Continue ReadingIf you were to ask, they were "just" showing Prime Minister Koizumi where Dr. King was shot -- since they had done it up at Graceland and were in the neighborhood anyway. In their constant (and symbolically heavy-handed) quest to ingratiate themselves with the black voting populace, however, it's...
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