Welcome to the latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. Starting with this broadcast, we’re excited to roll out a new format.
Continue ReadingNot since the administration’s panic over the crowd size at the inauguration have we seen such visual damage control.
Continue ReadingThe Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week.
Continue ReadingTaken during Mike Pompeo's empty visit to North Korea last week, Andrew Harnik's Instagram photo is pretty clever.
Continue ReadingI know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now.
Continue ReadingWelcome to the latest edition of Chatting the Pictures, a webcast analyzing the week’s top news photos.
Continue ReadingBefore the Trump era, you could count on the news to slow down in the summer. Instead, drama, chaos, and hysteria continue as the order of the day.
Continue ReadingKim Jong Un has proved himself a master at softening his media image. His summit with Donald Trump in Singapore was just the latest example.
Continue ReadingRTP’s Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan meet up Saturday mornings for a lively twenty-five minutes chat about three current news photos.
Continue Reading“Something old and something new” was the theme of the visual week. The royal wedding counted as both--and sadly, so did the latest school massacre.
Continue ReadingWhat stokes the media as effectively as it fuels insurgency and state power--especially in the Trump era? Simply put, it's the fireworks.
Continue ReadingThe visual news this week was dominated by the state visit of French President Macron and his wife, Brigitte. Korea, Cosby and Toronto were notable too.
Continue ReadingJohn Moore’s focus is not so much the US-Mexico border itself but the way the line infiltrates the lives of people in every direction.
Continue Reading9 reasons why the photo from the Barbara Bush funeral won the internet.
Continue ReadingWith western media concentrated on Gaza and Douma, crisis and violence again come to stereotype the Middle East and Islam.
Continue ReadingWelcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week we discussed Mark Zuckerberg’s DC appearance, the Syria gas attack, and Michael Cohen "and friends."
Continue ReadingBetween Zuckerberg, Syria and the latest Trump storms, the news photos this week were more complex than usual.
Continue ReadingAs much as his appearance before Congress was a visual sensation, Zuckerberg was not going to be pinned down legally, rhetorically or photographically.
Continue ReadingWelcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week, we focus on photos from the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King assassination, protests in Gaza, and Donald Trump throwing away a script.
Continue ReadingNews photos this week seemed to treat issues with more complexity, and there was more focus on Trump's policy than personality. Something is shifting.
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