At the fifty day mark of this Administration, I think this photo from yesterday's TIME White House Photo Blog carries a bit of weight. The caption reads: President Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House to sign an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific i...

What Charlie Crist understands and the photo demonstrates is that Obama -- a month in -- is far from weakened, far from damaged. So yes, in the context of the echo chamber and the striking Repugs on The Hill, one might consider it a "brave move" by the Florida Gov to "break rank" and appear with the...

After a tough last week, it's hard not to see this drawn-out CNN video of Obama bumping his head as a cheap visual metaphor to suggest he is stumbling -- especially as the flight is directly tied to his sale of the stimulus package....

1. Cross Hall. Perfectly fitting. 2. Hard to tell how pissed off they are when they're so distant (and almost swallowed up in that space) 3. ...Or, is TIME implanting the suggestion the Obama's plan is insane, or even that "44" and Geithner are really off? 4. Certainly, captions like this (and the a...

The account I found most telling in Errol Morris's interview with three wire service photo editors about the Bush era involves the image above. As Jim Bourg of Reuters explains: I actually edited this photo there in New York on the scene in 2001. I was looking to put him [Bush] in the context of whe...

I spent a good part of the day yesterday wondering what it was that makes this Meet The Press handout almost unbearable for me to look at.  (It shows James Carville and wife Mary Matalin breaking down during the taping of last Sunday's program memorializing Tim Russert.) What I arrived at is this: ...

Looking at newswire images day after day, you can't help but see patterns, peculiarities and visual devices.  Although most aren't worth thinking too hard about, there is one case I've been curious about. Specifically, I've been seeing these reflected Obama images at least a couple times a month si...

I have misspoken many times in the past and I promise that I’ll do it again in the future because I’m not perfect. I do try to chose my words carefully especially if I’m talking to someone who is recording me. It only makes sense. I have never called someone an idiot or pinhead or ...

I think the story that's been flying around the echo chamber the last two days really has little to do with whether a naked woman might have actually been reflected in Cheney's shades.  In my mind, at least, the real story has more to do with all the hoo-ha over it, demonstrating how Cheney's naked...

In a series of interviews with the news media given during his deployment but not released until now, Prince Harry revealed that he had not washed in four days and that he was enjoying a life of semi-normalcy among regular soldiers.  -- New York Times While the Brits are up in arms about the media ...