Defining the NYTimes’ Photo Bias: (Or, Kerry Still Getting Short End of the Pic)
Because I’ve been on something of my own campaign regarding (what I see as) bias in the NYTimes campaign photo coverage, I thought it might help to be more specific about it. I was thinking, for example, how I would lay it out to the Times editors. So here’s...
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Make Up Sex: The Ongoing Saga of the NYTimes Political Photo Coverage
Sometime in the summer, I started a blog category called “Leading Photos.” Inspired by the unconventional cover photos in the NYTimes, I would occasionally post the most interesting shots while offering various wry suggestions as to their subtext. (Example 1, Example 2) If you’ve been following the BAG, you...
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Scribbler In Chief
I know this is completely frivolous, but it got a laugh out of me. The premise is, simply, that these people obtained the “notes” Bush was talking during the second debate. View here. (from: jillian. She contributes rants here.)
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Border Report
I scored it: Kerry 55, Women 34, God 32, Tony Soprano 16, Bush 15, Accountants 14, Congress (-1), Teresa (-4). …But seriously — the cartoon is coming!
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It’s Undebatable: Bush Angry, Defensive and Going Down
Perhaps the best analogy for this exhaustingly long Presidential campaign is that of a boxing match–each man mercilessly attacking, and then fighting to get off the ropes. Following this logic, you could say that the man most likely to fall is the one on defense in the late rounds....
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Crude Excuses
In his latest fallback position on Iraq, President Bush used last Friday’s debate to justify attacking Iraq because of problems with the United Nation’s Oil for Food program. The President intimated that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he was subverting the U.N.’s rules of containment for his own...
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Times Still At It? (Sunday edition)
Really, I’m just stupified at this point by the Times’ photo coverage of John Kerry. After all the business with Daniel Okrent and Jackson Pollock, here’s the latest set of images of the two candidates. This time, we have George Bush hand in hand with his idolizing wife, Laura...
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More NYTimes Graphic Kerry Bashing — Saturday Edition
Following on my last entry, here’s the latest NYTimes photo/graphic feature comparing the two presidential campaigns. Saturday, the Times ran another one of those clever “Op-Art” pieces on the Editorial page. This one features two bumper stickers. The point of the piece (it’s supposed to be ironic, I understand)...
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In Which The NYTimes Public Editor Has A Meltdown, And We Consider Whether BAGnewsNotes Caused Him To Lose It
In my previous post, I described how my Guest Blogger, Karen, complained to the NYTimes about their photo coverage of George Bush and John Kerry. This morning, we got his reply, and all I can say is “ouch!” First of all, I can’t claim credit for any of Mr....
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In Which the NYTimes Photo Coverage Does Another Hatchet Job on Kerry, and our Guest Blogger Says “Enough Already!”
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I’ve been keeping an eye on the photo coverage of Bush and Kerry for the past couple of months. In that time, it’s been my sense that the coverage has been biased against Kerry. Primarily, what I have observed is...
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Multipronged Vision
With the suggestion that life imitates art (think: Manchurian Candidate), there was a lot of internet buzz this week about how George Bush supposedly receives talking points through an earpiece. As evidence for this, various sites posted photos allegedly showing an electronic device showing through Bush’s suit jacket. Also...
Continue ReadingA Weekend Off From the Internets
Unless I am suddenly overwhelmed –in the next 36 hours — by the compulsion to BAG on the debate, I’ll be back on Monday. (By the way, what’s this “internets” thing Bush was referring to?)
Continue ReadingLatest BAGnews Cartoon: Multipronged Approach
send this cartoon to a friend! With the suggestion that life imitates art (think: Manchurian Candidate), there was a lot of internet buzz this week about how George Bush supposedly receives talking points through an earpiece. As evidence for this, various sites posted photos allegedly showing an electronic device...
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Latest BAGnews Cartoon: Seconds Helping
send this cartoon to a friend! As I noted earlier this week regarding the 1st Presidential debate, many analysts perceived the President as “tired.” Perhaps I’m perseverating, but I had the same impression watching the Vice President. Although Cheney is older than Edwards, he’s not that much older. However,...
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The Surprise of the Veep Debate: Cheney Defeats Bush!
At Overstated.net, Cameron Marlow (a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab) created a clever utility, called the Debate Spotter, to reveal recurrent themes emphasized by the candidates in the Presidential and the Vice-Presidential debate. Specifically, the tool can identify the most popular phrases from the official transcript. In...
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WWI In Color
Joerg Colberg’s blog has a nice entry tracking down some of the few color photographs from WWI. Given the ahistorical mindset in the country, as well as the tendency to view war as an abstraction, such documentation can only contribute to the undeniability of “real live” conflict. (Link.) (image:...
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