Always A Star
From day one to day last, the stars (from the stars-and-stripes) have been lost in Bush's eyes.
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What If Hamas Was In EVERYONE'S Neighborhood?
We already know Hamas has a highly effective visual narrative for waging war. So now, friends of Israel have come up with one too.
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Your Turn: Barack And Michelle '96, Hyde Park
I was interested in your take on this image of Barack and Michelle Obama by Mariana Cook, taken in May 2006.
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From Jaffa
As you know, I've been working to find a stance (or multiple stances and themes) from which to examine the troubling imagery of this Middle East crisis. In spite of the difficulty of such effort, especially given the kinds of two-sided passions it evokes, I remain dedicated to pursuing...
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BagNewsSalon: Michelle O
Preceding the inauguration of Barack Obama, this edition of the BAGnewsSALON, an on-line discussion series, dealt with how Michelle Obama has presented herself, and been perceived by the media.
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The Rock
As regards Obama, Iran and this photo at Die Welt, a rock, as well as can secure a stack of newspapers, can also be used to throw..
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The Ugly Stereotype Of An Ugly Stereotype?
In finding a "silver lining" in the Madoff scandal, does Newsweek make an ugly stereotype of "Uncle Bernie's" Jewish nose?
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Getting The BAG's Inauguration Coverage Started A Little Early
In kicking off our Inauguration coverage, we take a look back at these images from the Inauguration and Counter-Inauguration forty years ago.
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Delivering For The Children
Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi's Congressional opening day photo op.
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The Grotesque
I stumbled upon this This image moved from the file to on the newswire yesterday (searching "U.S. Congress" and "Israel") spurred by the anonymous voice-vote in Congress in support of Israel the Israeli campaign in Gaza.
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El Shafa
This photo was taken several months after sanctions closed Gaza’s borders preventing goods, money and medicine from entering the country. El Shafa is the primary medical facility in Gaza City.
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Roland Burris And The Civil Rights Echo
I think Stephen Crowley's image on the NYT front page of Roland Burris outside the Capitol yesterday is just stunning. The association I had was to the scene outside Little Rock Central High in 1957.
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On The Hilltop
i To what extent does this Reuters photo make these Israeli children out to be bloodthirsty monsters?
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Gaza/Egypt Border Crossing
Report from Cairo by BAGnewsNotes contributer, Zoriah Miller
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Captioning The New Year
Faced with another year of violence, journalists and citizens alike have to make choices about how to depict and understand what is happening, and how to do so without becoming cynical or otherwise numbed to the obligations and possibilities for change. One place to begin is by looking at...
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www.sowingseedsofdissension.democrats.gov
With the country in a shambles, the media wouldn't want the Democrats getting off to a rocky start, would it?
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The First Day Of School Show
There are various of angles and implications to these Flickr/first day of school pictures posted this morning on the Obama - Biden Transition Project's photostream.
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