Yesterday evening (gmt + 1) Danish teevee news live fed President Obama’s announcement that Chrysler will head into bankruptcy protection. Can anyone tell me if the CNNization of Danish news along with its increased obsession focus on live “breaking” coverage of D.C. political intrigue is merely a figment of my imagination?
A few weeks ago, thinking [...]
The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark, New Jersey
Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP
from the photo essay in The Guardian via Space and Culture.
The Orange County suburb in Shenyank, China. h/t ata
Photograph by George Steinmetz for National Geographic.
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 memory“Although the land around Walden Pond has been preserved as a state park, the pond itself is hardly the quiet refuge it was in Thoreau’s day — at least not in the summer, when it is a popular swimming hole.”
This image really stood out from the accompanying photo essay to this NYT article, Thoreau is [...]
During this latest “financial crisis” there have been some fascinating images which communicate possible alternative narratives to the daily press stories. The image above from this NYT article particularly caught my attention. Here, despite whatever giveaway, formerly known as the bail-out, “rescue” the Senate may approve on Wednesday, the message in this photo seems [...]
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
Constitution, 2008
8 x 25 feet in five panels
Depicts 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration’s war on terror.