I'm glad James Burrows actually likened Jon Stewart to Edward R. Murrow last night because all I could think of, while watching Jon Stewart pluck out Jim Cramer's feathers in bunches, was "Frost - Nixon," "Frost Nixon."
Continue ReadingI'm dong a weekly blog radio show. The 10- minute segment at the top of the show is called "Pictures of the Week."
Continue ReadingBristol and Levi Johnston have broken up? You're kidding! This award-winning photo by photographer Melina Mara takes us back to Campaign '08's biggest snow job.
Continue ReadingFifty days in to this new Administration, I see the photo as particularly relevant -- especially in light of the clawing Howard Fineman delivered to Obama in yesterday's Newsweek.
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Continue ReadingWhat a great send-up of "stage act" Michael Steele.
Continue ReadingBecause Geithner is obviously not running around with his hair on fire, the look of deliberation implies one of two opposite meanings.
Continue ReadingThe plywood panel as signature of the undertaker.
Continue ReadingNewsweek morphs a super-sized Limbaugh into the Great and Powerful Oz, slaps a tag across his mouth connotative of porn, and guarantees (ca-ching, ca-ching) he will be driving the news cycle a second week in a row.
Continue ReadingEven the White House slide show on the health care forum seemed a little distant, by the way, playing with backgrounds and spending two pics on the presence of Teddy Kennedy. Given the White House emphasis on bipartisanship, dialogue and interactivity in these forums, it's also curious the person...
Continue ReadingThis photo -- taken at a tent city in Sacramento -- has a real Depression-era feeling to it.
Continue ReadingIn a thoroughly vivid reference, TIME referred to these personnel as "stimulus-created police."
Continue ReadingPerhaps the photo op of the week involved Michelle Obama at the Women in Military Service Memorial Center at Arlington.
Continue ReadingDespite plenty of options to choose from, both WAPO and the NYT ran the same picture of "the head of the Republican Party" within the past few days. Why?
Continue ReadingGiven his role as the combined Mr. Fixit and Communicator-in-Chief of the economic meltdown, Tim Geither doesn't come off assertive, personable or even relatable. This photo by Ben Lowy, taken as the Administration was settling in, leads off a slide show at Fortune titled "Inside Obama's economic war room."
Continue ReadingThis photo (that Rove posted himself on Twitpics the other day) comes with all kinds of delectables.
Continue ReadingWhat is troubling is the way in which we seem to have convinced ourselves that the reason we having been fighting the Afghan war, at least in part, has been to save its women.
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