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Bag’s Take-Away:
Just another fleeting cringe instant for web advertising (movie ad on top of Middle East distress in creating a “share” link).
via NYT: Fighting Escalates Between Israel and Hamas
(photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
The still poignant but also familiar photo of the low wage worker sweeping up the campaign venue before or after the hoopla goes down. #TwoAmericas
via: Reuters
(photo: Adrees Latif/Reuters caption: A woman cleans the floor near the stage at McCormick Place, the site for U.S. President Barack Obama’s post election speech, in Chicago, Illinois November 6, 2012. Obama congratulated Republican rival Mitt Romney on Tuesday for running a hard-fought race for the White House and expressed confidence he would win re-election during a stop at a local campaign office to thank volunteers. linked photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
So, I’m trying to decide how much this photo is a brilliant slam on the GOP or it’s just a gratuitous bit of sexism. If the target of the piece (and the headline) was the party and its war on women and reproductive rights, that would be one thing. Instead however, the focus is Republican women themselves. That being the case, isn’t the photo just taking the opportunity to cast GOP females, at least the younger set, are just a bunch of air heads looking to go shopping and get their hair done? (…Or perhaps there’s supposed to be a little more subtlety between the dumb blondes and the brunette who’s more dialed in?)
via: Republican Women Play Down Social Issues (NYT)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Every so often, campaign compassion and campaign emotion is interrupted and caused to pale by the deeper and more spontaneous kind.
The caption:
Stephanie Miller of Sandusky Ohio cries on the shoulder of U.S. President Barack Obama at a campaign event at Washington Park in Sandusky, Ohio July 5, 2012. Miller’s sister died of cancer and said that Obama’s healthcare plan would have given her better treatment options.
(photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters )
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Bag’s Take-Away:
New variation on Old Glory as common element in US disaster photos.
via: Waldo Canyon Fire - Residents Return To Mountain Shadows | Denver Post Photos, Video.
(photo: Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post caption: Immanuel Mgana holds his daughter Grace Mgana, 2, as the two survey what is left of their home. The family lost their entire house. Immanuel had been deployed in the army in East Africa and saw the picture by the Denver Post of their home on fire that ran on the front page. He was immediately allowed to come home to his wife and three children. Residents were allowed back today July 1, 2012 into the Mountain Shadows subdivision to visit their homes five days after the Waldo Canyon fire ravaged their neighborhood. Over 340 homes were lost in this subdivision. Many homes were burned to the ground while others, sometimes next door, were left untouched. It was the first opportunity for homeowners to see if their homes were lost or still standing.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
What?? Two breastfeeding covers in a row?
(photo: Marco Grob for TIME
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Yes,”WELCOME BACK TO 1965” — when Newsweek was viable and a bigger franchise then, well, Mad Men.
(credits: Design Director Dirk Barnett/ Art Director Lindsay Ballant/ Director of Photography Scott Hall)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Talk about geo-political history, mass murder and web marketing which pulls at the heartstrings. Paired with WAPO’s Joseph Kony slideshow, I encountered this ad for a “Band of Brothers” tour package hitting the emotional touchstones of the Great War for those of all religious and cultural backgrounds. The ad is a classic, isn’t it, for the way it plays on guilt and remembrance?
Here’s a snip of the ad copy:
Return to 1944 as the Allies prepare for the invasion of Europe on our Beyond Band of Brothers tours. These all-inclusive historical tours visit iconic sites such as the beaches of Normandy, the Ardennes forest and Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. Or join our Holocaust and Central Europe tour for a challenging yet rewarding experience. The end of the 11-day Beyond Band of Brothers tour overlaps seamlessly with the beginning of the Holocaust and Central Europe tour, a unique, 19-day trip that is the ultimate World War II tour.
To really seal the deal, though, how about a stop through Uganda first?
(photo: Jahi Chikwendiu / THE WASHINGTON POST caption: Sept. 15, 2004: Children gather at the children’s shelter called Noah’s Ark in the northern Uganda town of Gulu. Every night, more than 25,000 children leave their villages or camps throughout the district and walk to Gulu to escape being killed or abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which is waging war against the Ugandan government.)
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