By Michael Shaw — voiceover: "Hi, I’m Howard Dean. Are you tired of America stomping all over its allies and going it alone in the world? That’s what happens when we elect a leader who has hardly been out of his own backyard. I’ve been in over 50 countries, more than that hayseed will have visited by the time

By Michael Shaw — About the Site The BAGnewsNotes weblog, which began in June 2003, is the successor to the cartoon site (and teaching tool/visual experiment/civics lesson) known as BAGnews.com, which went on-line in 1999. This blog has four goals: 1.) To analyze news and advocacy images for the way they reveal media bias; political or cultural stereotypes; larger

By Michael Shaw — My name is Michael Shaw.  I am a Clinical Psychologist; writer;  analyst of visual journalism; interpreter of political images; and the curator of this project called BAGnewsNotes. "The BAG" offers a daily semiotic analysis of news and political images from a political, cultural or psychological point of view, and is also a platform for original