Here’s the latest example how visual media likes to frame natural disasters through a nationalistic lens (the flag as a dominant symbol or “actor”), the impact inferred as a blow to America’s self-esteem and/or survival equated to the strength of the American character. A few more examples: 1, 2,...
Continue ReadingThis morning, The Atlantic's Marc Herman has a nice piece about propaganda leaflets being dropped over Libya. We honed in on, particularly, this flyer and what the drone, a symbol of American might and stealth, means to people in the Middle East and North Africa.
Continue ReadingIf the Keystone protest has been going on for weeks in front of the White House while hardly earning a blip on the media radar, yesterday was a different story.
Continue ReadingPerry has some tough auditions ahead to sell the idea he's ready for Broadway.
Continue ReadingWhat I like about the New York Mag anniversary cover is the message how little we're that much over it.
Continue ReadingDodging a bullet, and crying wolf: Hurricane Irene in New York City.
Continue ReadingAre politicians so unwilling to take calculated risks these days that we're in for automatic and massive security investments at the first whiff of either high-profile natural or man-made threats?
Continue ReadingSeems Iike I've seen that kind of headwear somewhere else before.
Continue ReadingThe illustration is very cool, but I'm wondering: what does it symbolize, exactly?
Continue ReadingI just wish I could have been there yesterday to help place sandbags at the NY Stock Exchange.
Continue ReadingOn one level, the only difference is geometry.
Continue ReadingWell, I like how they photographed Gaddafi's Condi Rice scrapbook on top of a flowery mattress in the dictator's compound.
Continue ReadingPerhaps it's his deteriorating health, though, that motivated this kind of imperial parting shot.
Continue ReadingIf you were at all worried about London's well-being, not to worry.
Continue ReadingNicole Tung in eastern Libya where the eastern front presses on towards the Qaddafi stronghold of Sirte, and fierce fighting may yet be in the cards.
Continue ReadingThe partial preservation of Gaddafi’s image suggests that, ultimately, in order to move towards an unknown future a reminder of the past must stay in sight.
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