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Notes Photo October 1, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Winners and Losers, Suuuh!

This week's BagNewsSalon Visual Week in Review looks at "winners and losers." On the upside, we see Obama tearing in up in Wisconsin and Steven Colbert having his way with Congress. On the downhill side, we see Israel gearing up the tractors and Rahm Emanuel leaving town on a...

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Notes Photo September 17, 2010

Visual Week in Review: That Fire Drill Otherwise Known as the 9/11 Anniversary; Christine's Scream

This week's VWIR looks at the contentious 9/11 anniversary -- including photos by Alan Chin from Ground Zero and the conservative 9/12 rally in DC -- and the dramatic Tea Party upset in the Delaware GOP Senate primary.

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Notes Photo September 2, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Iraq Getaway; King Beck; Godless Muslim Presidents, Sarah Gets Grizzly

This week’s VWIR focuses on the intense spin surrounding the informal end of the Iraq war, Glenn Beck’s not-political, not-hostile, not-Martin Luther King reminiscent love fest in D.C., and what can happen if you fall in the clutches of Sarah Palin. See previous Weeks in Review here.

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Notes Photo August 26, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Mosque-Phobic Out-of-Towners; Obama Islam Poll; Meaner McCain

This week's VWIR focuses on the hysteria surrounding the proposed Park 51 Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero as a prelude to the upcoming 9/11 anniversary and a wedge issue in the mid-term elections.

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Notes Photo June 25, 2010

Visual Week in Review: McChrystal Falls, Those Ain’t Snowballs, Soccer=Kumbaya?

Today's Visual Week in Review looks at political spin (tar balls --not snowballs -- have hit Pensacola!); the media's addiction to drama (Afghanistan was a snoozer till McChrystal's head rolled); and global kumbaya as a World Cup marketing fantasy.

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Notes Photo June 11, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Triumphant Screams/Primal Screams

This Visual Week in Review focuses on the female-powered mid-term primaries, the escalating anger over the oil blowout in the Gulf, the all-too-measured White House response, and the election's "winners-behind-the-winners."

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Notes Photo June 4, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Spin, Spin, Spin

From Israel and Gaza, to Al and Tipper, to DC and BP, everyone had their own story to re-tell this week.

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Notes Photo May 28, 2010

Visual Week in Review: National Geographic, It Wasn’t

This week's BagNewsSalon Visual Week in Review focuses on the only story that really registered -- and who got tarred.

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Notes Photo May 14, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Coming to the Surface

This BagNewsSalon Visual Week in Review takes a look at the increasingly visible oil disaster in the Gulf, the Republicans "getting more graphic" in election season, the cast change (and Viagra injection) in British politics, and Obama's new nominee to the Supreme Court.

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Notes Photo May 7, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Damage Control

The BagNews Visual Week in Review looks at the political week in photos. This week, "the damage" extended from Louisiana and the Gulf, to Times Square, to the British election.

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Notes Photo April 30, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Natural and Unnatural

BagNewsSalon’s Visual Week in Review looks at what's natural and unnatural in the coverage of violent volcanoes and oil spills, as well as political rock stars and the White House vs. Wall Street image war.

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Notes Photo April 20, 2010

Visual Week in Review (4.16.10): Obama’s Nuke Summit

BagNewsSalon's Visual Week in Review for 4/14/10 looks at Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Summit in Washington.

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