Your BAG/World Press Tuesday: Last Combat Injury?
World Press '08 - Spot News: 3rd prize stories Michael Kamber, USA, The New York Times. Searching for missing soldiers, Latafiya, Iraq, 18 May
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Your BAG/World Press Monday: Putin
Turning Over The Ship: Day 1 Portraits: 1st prize singles Platon, UK, for Time magazine.
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Your BAG/World Press Sunday: From Gaza City
World Press '08 - Spot News: Honorable Mention Emilio Morenatti, Spain, The Associated Press.
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Your BAG/World Press Saturday: The Range
World Press '08: General News: Honorable Mention Christoph Bangert, Germany, Laif for Stern.
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Your BAG
For five days, I'm turning The BAG completely over to the readership. (Because I'm told people come here as much to hear their take as mine, I say, all the better.)
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When You Subtract Lewis
This shot was taken on October 12th, the day Representative Lewis -- the influential congressman and civil rights veteran, and long time friend and supporter of the Clintons -- gave his endorsement to Hillary. The image surfaced yesterday in the NYT after the Georgian and super delegate reversed that...
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Your Turn: Welcome To New Orleans
People in New Orleans are not just angry but also horribly embarrassed by this shot illustrating a recent city purchase of SWAT and riot equipment. They are pissed off at Mayor Nagin (right), the police chief, Warren Riley (left), and the Times Picayune for running it.... The armored vehicle...
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Swingin' With David Petraeus
Nice to see General Petraeus -- taking time out from putting Sunni's on the U.S. payroll -- celebrating the grand opening of a USO facility at the air base in Balad, Iraq.
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RGB
lthough the picture was taken some days before the voting, you can't look at this image outside the context of the one-sided loss HRC suffered last night in Maryland (as well as Virginia and D.C.).
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Badly Lacking
What these pics make me think -- beyond the (not so) subliminal -- was how Rove, with all his exacting visual message discipline, would never have let either of these shots happen.
Continue ReadingPropaganda Propaganda
What makes me upset is to see how al Qaeda uses videos of children to advance their propaganda aims. ...What also makes me even more upset is to see how the U.S. military mashes up al Qaeda videos to advance their propaganda aims.
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Signs And Signals
Very interesting picture here from the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Virginia on Saturday.
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Starting Out All Thumbs
Leave it to photojournalist and political commentarist Christoper Morris to elevate and accentuate the dis-ease with McCain.
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Not Pimping, But Something
The firestorm around David Shuster's snide remark obscures the fact there is a point in there somewhere. That point, I believe, addresses Chelsea's sudden, striking emergence as an active campaigner, and in tandem, almost a new X-factor in the campaign.
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The Futility Of The Iraq War Picture (Or: Bombs Away, Far Away)
The more I look at and think about this image, accompanying a NYT war update a little over a week ago, the more questions it raises.
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Papering Over The Differences
I wanted to suggest that if you haven't seen the latest Charmin toilet paper TV ad, it is worth analysis.
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The Gawker
What is coming out now is the fact that Mitt, like his campaign, was mostly amateur hour.
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