Brands Exploiting MLK Day: Not Just the Most Horrible Offenders, But Why
Focusing on tweets that were visual or hinged on visual language, I've identified ones that co-opted MLK into the brand, and in some instances, were overtly racist.
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After Brooklyn Execution, Has Media Sympathy Shifted Pro-Police?
With the exoneration of Officer Morrison overlapping the backlash by the NYPD, we have a poster example of a serious problem with video and police accountability. It's called over-sharing.
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Holy Dive-in-ity
We shouldn't let a new year full of cataclysms obscure all those brave souls who've been jumping into super-cold water without their clothes.
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Death by Illustration
If you hadn't been following the news, this photo might seem terribly cheeky. (Then, how fitting would that be.)
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The Boko Haram Massacre from Outer (or is it, Inner?) Space
Amidst the world wide attention and outrage focused on the murders in Paris last week, one could also hear a faint cry -- about a double standard.
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With All the Romney Buzz, We Return (Via the Lens of the Brilliant Stephen Crowley) to Where We Left Off
If we really are going to have Mitt to kick around a third time, it's worth the eloquent, if slightly wicked reminder of what we'd be re-subjected to.
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Front Pages: German Papers Point to Israel-Palestine in Paris Attacks
A feature in the German papers jumped out that made the erasure by the Orthodox paper that much more awkward and ironic.
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Je Suis Photo-Op: On the Paris World Leader Solidarity Fail
What's noteworthy about this photograph is how quickly world leaders can come together when it's time to jump on the visual bandwagon.
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Our Take on the New Charlie Hebdo "Muhammad" Cover
The first Charlie Hebdo post-attack cover is brilliant and humane on two scores, one that is obvious and the other that is less so.
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A Real Cowboy: Delicious Chris Christie Swipe at NFL Playoff Game Via Dallas Morning Newsk
I can't tell whether or how much the Dallas Morning News or the photographer also saw this as ironic, political or character branding.
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Yes, More of This
On the scenes of fraternity and solidarity across France in the days following the Hedbo attack.
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You Know What's Strange About The Viral Photo of the Blacked-Out Eiffel Tower?
It makes you wonder (or makes me wonder, anyway) about rhythms in the universe.
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The Cartoonist's Response to the Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo (and How Hard it is to Take a Joke)
The sphere was awash in cartoons and illustrations yesterday in response to the lethal attack on the French political cartoonist and satirist publication, Charlie Hebdo. This is a summary of the primary examples with some thoughts.
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David Butow, Ferguson and the Crisis, in Our Media Culture, of Seeing What's There
The events are so complicated, so charged with racial history and people's personal experience that it's like the movie Rashomon, there is no single correct way of looking at them.
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Sarah Stacke's "Love From Manenberg": Making Strong Bones
Many media outlets are not addressing gang violence in the Flats because of oversaturation and reader fatigue. In the grand scheme of South Africa, violence in the Flats is overlooked by much of the population, politicians included.
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A Year of Looking at News Photos
If you missed some or many of these entries, here are the pieces that kept visual media honest, made us all look deeper and longer at worthy images, and honored and took joy in the profession.
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Turning Backs On Turned Backs: The Second Funeral of Gunned Down NYPD Officers
If the NYPD compromised a second funeral of its gunned down colleagues, the media enabled them.
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The Rare Artful Stock Exchange Photo
An impressionistic picture from the trading floor invites feedback.
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