Hacked to Death: The Times Murdoch "News of the World" Cover
Forty-two years later, it's still about the pay-off.
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The Hacking Scandal: Shoe on the Other Foot
Given how Rebekah Brooks, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch's News International is caught at the center of a far-reaching hacking scandal, this photo is just about perfect.
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Strauss-Kahn Perp Pix: A Second Look
At his arraignment hearing slipped into history, I felt sorry I didn't post this wonderful portrait of Dominique Strauss-Kahn sitting ruefully on that bench. For a more complex photo of what's turning out to be a more complex situation, however, I like this shot quite a bit.
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What’s To See in the John Edwards Mug Shot
It’s not the shame-avoidant salesman’s smile that’s significant; we’ve seen that a million times.
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Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now?
There is something of a parallel process in play where the visual media gets to now take over the fetishizing of the Congressman, it's own prurient interests driving their own creating and posting of tawdry pictures of him.
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G-8 Update: More on Sex, Power and Men in High Places
Talking about powerful political leaders with sex issues...
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Two Sex-Scandals: Focusing in on the Problem
While the impetus behind these stories is supposedly exposing the men that "done them wrong," it's often the women who suffer most from the media backlash.
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Picturing Arnold the Philanderer = Very Old News
Why anybody, especially the media, would even bat an eye over yesterday's disclosure of Schwarzenegger's love child and at least a ten year infidelity occurring right under the nose of his wife and his family is ludicrous.
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Wall Street: War's Over
What I can't get past is the fact that the benjamins represent the middle finger and one giant FU to government, Main Street and accountability.
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Congressman Christopher Lee's Hardware
Since "the smoking gun" in this story, however, is a photograph, you need to see it full scale to really appreciate the sexual suggestion.
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World Media Sinks to TMZ Level over Wiki-leaked Diplo-Chatter
It seems the flood of unvarnished diplo-chatter revealed by the latest Wikileaks leak has provided media, especially visual media, a field day to dish dirt on world leaders rather than really dig for photos that cast a clearer light on all the new information.
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Nina Berman: Prosperity Gospel
Nina Berman photographs Bishop Eddie Long in his mega-church and the "Prosperity Gospel."
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It’s All Greek To Me
Treasure Secretary Tim Geithner has been completely retooled. But then, will the public buy the new picture?
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What Time Do The Checks (I Mean, The Guests) Arrive?
Must be WAPO's Milbank and Cillizza dressed for the Salon.
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Sanford: That’s My Boy
It's a standard, but well-worthy file photo circulating this evening, the philandering Mark Sanford mainlining the adulation, the power, the thrill of election night.
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Iran Social Media Working The Pictures
Alleged TV screenshot showing decline in votes for Mohsen Rezayi's from 633,068 at 9:47am to 587,913 at 13:53pm.
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"Cabinet Room" Revisited
I thought it was worth taking another look at the Leibovitz "Cabinet Room" portrait, which not only shot right after the start of the Afghan invasion but also occurred -- in terms of present context -- four months after the Bybee torture memo was written.
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Jane Harman’s Stolen Moments
Now the question is, if you were a photo editor on this Jane Harman scandal story, you could resist running this picture?
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