This image was one of the more ridiculous examples of corporate media’s role in placing Obama’s presidency within right-wing and neoliberal narrative frames. The illustration accompanied Jon Meacham’s much contested Newsweek cover article which asserted the difficulty of governing as a liberal in a (supposedly) predominantly conservative America. Here, the myth of the silent majority [...]
Tagged Inauguration, Obama, public memoryI was just looking through Todd Heisler’s absolutely spot-on revelations about Sara Palin. Heisler has been one of my favorite story tellers during this roller coaster election season and his latest photo essay is simply brilliant. While the lead image to the accompanying article, Back Home, Palin Finds Landscape Has Changed explains how Palin must [...]
“November 4, 2008″ by Patrick Moberg
H/T Bent. Click for Hi-res version
by Emek
This is the lead image currently online at the NYT. I love how this shot, voters at Woodland Elementary, perfectly serves as a metaphor for the Obama campaign. Here we see six older voters in multicultural technicolor mirror the stylized picket fence painted on the wall. A group of small children run across the [...]
H/t BNN
(Images: Marco Acevedo/Hokum at Open.Salon)
Be careful what you wish for. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was an earnest neophyte feminist at Vassar, earnestly debating the meanings of feminism, sexism, and choice, I used to wish, earnestly, that we would have a political campaign that actually discussed these issues. And this year I finally got [...]
(Newsweek, November 20, 2000)
I wrote this a few days ago but was unable to post it until now.
Benita sent me an email link the other day to the Obama campaign’s latest online fund raising video. In the video, Obama is wearing a strong red tie and Biden a baby blue tie. She sent me [...]
Photograph by Matt Stoller
Ben Shahn’s “Register to Vote” poster from the 1940s
Photography by Ben Shahn for the FSA: Fiddlin’ Bill Henseley, North Carolina, 1937