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Weekend Captionfest: Photographers in Lebanon
"Okay, for this next shot, we're going to need you over here."
"Good use of ketchup on that corpse."
Brian Blogs Back: I Was 'Aggressively Misunderstood
Apparently stung by criticism of his comments on last night's Hardball, Brian Williams has responded with a clarification at the Daily Nightly, the in-house blog of the NBC Nightly News. In doing so, Williams seems to have coined a new phrase, claiming to have been 'aggressively misunderstood' by his critics.As noted here, on last evening's 7 PM Hardball, Chris Matthews asked Williams about the…
Thank NSA Wiretapping for Foiled Terror Plot
Will the New York Times write stories on how eavesdropping is what alerted U.S. authorities to the terrorist airplane attack? Time magazine reported in an exclusive that the "U.S. picked up the suspects' chatter and shared it with British authorities."
The operation involved cooperation between British and American authorities.
Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been…
Tilting at Blog Windmills
I've been meaning to write something about the latest blog-bashing
from the keyboard of Columbia J-school dean Nicholas Lemann but haven't
had the time. Thankfully, New York Press's Russ Smith and my friend Bob
Cox have taken care of the task for me. Before quoting from them,
here's a taste of Lemann's sour grapes, actually saying that the legacy media never have been elitist and, in fact, are…
A Gentle Reminder: The Many Forms of Propaganda
It's important to remember that photographs don't necessarily have to be modified to be propaganda. Consider this one, sent out by the Associated Press from their coverage of the London protests.
Notice how the photograph was taken from a low angle? The photographer clearly intended to present a "David vs. Goliath" scenario, with the United States predictably being shoe-horned into Goliath's…
Open Thread Friday
Your official Friday thread. Captionfest nominations, jokes, and whatever else.UPDATE 14:38. From the not-exactly-media-bias department: MSNBC host Tucker Carlson is going to be on "Dancing with the Stars." HT: Insty.
Post Worshipfully Labels Pew Hispanic Center 'Unbiased
Detailed look shows immigration study comes from group that preaches liberal policy solutions.
CBS Refers to Would-Be Terrorists as 'Martyrs
How strong is the word "martyr"? After the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last June, Aljazeera.net reported that a Jordanian got in trouble for using that word to describe Zarqawi, his former countryman.
Jordan's parliament has condemned an Islamist MP for calling Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a "martyr" and demanded that his party question him and three other members for attending the dead al-Qaida…