The Prestige
I thoroughly enjoyed this imaginative shot of Karl Rove doing a rap skit (if you can believe that!) at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ dinner Wednesday night. Married to a NYT article yesterday detailing Rove's role in hiring and firing United States attorneys, we get a wonderfully imaginative composition...
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Captured
Reuters In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair called the seizure of the British crew “completely unacceptable, wrong and illegal.”
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On Notice
over the shoulder/My Pet Goat U.S. President George W. Bush (R) listens to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner at a hotel in Washington March 28, 2007.
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War You Say?
Mrs. Laura Bush addresses her remarks during the 25th Anniversary United Service Organizations (USO) of Metropolitan Washington Annual Awards Dinner in Arlington, Va., March 27, 2007, where Mrs. Bush was presented with the 2007 USO Service Award.
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C BS Does Chapel Hill
Why did this one screen shot from the Couric - Edwards interview pop up in the Edwards newswire thread yesterday? Could it be because the network percieves it has problem from that emotionally autistic excuse for an INTERVIEW.... Wonder if this is the most sympathetic image they could come...
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Pictures As Projectiles
As you know, I'm constantly mindful of the MSM's role as an extension of the Administration's war machine. What is most curious about this shot, This shot accompanying a NYT story this morning analyzing how the Pentagon has been developing its case charging Iran with providing materiel to anti-American...
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Envisioning Gulf War III
Given the current standoff involving the British and Iranian navies in the Persian Gulf, I was just interested in the relative perspective of these two current newswire photos.
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You Can't Can Can't Go Home Again
In an atmosphere where the Administration is trying to squeeze every ounce of propaganda benefit out of "the surge," why should they have any help? I was troubled by this article in Friday's NYT, giving the impression that the so-called surge is allowing Iraqi's, displaced by sectarian violence, to...
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Your Turn: Chapel Hill
Elizabeth, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, listens during a press conference called to announce the return of her cancer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Elizabeth said that the former US senator would continue his run for the presidency.(AFP/Getty Images/Sara Davis) touches him Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards(L)...
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More "Staginess"
The result of "the show" was that Merkel and Chirac not only presented themselves to the press, as if incidentally, four separate times (the way newlyweds might jump from photo spot to photo spot at a wedding), but Chirac and Merkel actually staged four separate kissing scenes.
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Vote Different
Let's take a look at the frame ad man Phil De Vellis fit around Hillary Clinton in the Indie/pro-Obama "Vote Different" ad.
Continue ReadingOur Own Media: Going Forward
Two weeks ago, I launched an effort to help bring political imagery directly into the public sphere. The purpose of "Our Own Media" fund is to help support and subsidize the socially committed, traditionally underpaid and inherently visionary photojournalist. The goal of the effort — in addition to bringing...
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Your Turn: Demobilized
An image like this is an example of the blowback, framing the war/occupation -- both figuratively as well as literally -- as an assault on women.
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Looking More Like It
Compared to the demonstration in Washington this past February, this protest this weekend was considerably smaller. Reading the images, however, this one seemed much more significant. What was evident this time around was the parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, as well as the nation's growing anger about it.
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The Conservatives' Undertaker
How pathetic for McCain. The campaign hasn't even gotten going yet, and he's framed as the poster boy for a suddenly drowning movement.
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Law And Order Candidate
At first, I thought today's LAT on-line headline about the potential presidential candidacy of Fred Thompson was a bit of a joke. But that was before I clicked through to the article and saw the accompanying photos.
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Obama's Mosque
Although Obama has made known he attended an Islamic school for a couple of years, the Times seemed intent on nailing him for a lack of specificity about his religious curriculum and occasional prayer attendance.
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