Obamaphobia: Breaking the Frame

One of the highlights of NN for me was the panel on Framing with two of my heroes. Jeffrey Feldman was the moderator and our own "Gilly" winner, Michael Shaw was one of the presenters. He did an amazing section on visual framing going on in the MSM. If you know Bagnewsnotes, you know all about his work.

He and his son have just done an amazing job getting his presentation into slide-video form and getting it up on the web. Fascinating stuff. Take a look and listen.

I tried to embed it here, but the format is too large. So you have to go look over on the bag!

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MIB: Obama to Bush/McCain, "I make this sh*t look good."

Some of you know that a few of us here at the GNB have been fans of BagNewsNotes for quite a while. If you haven't been over there, give it a tour. Basically, Michael is all about analysing the photos and visual images we are presented with in news and politics. The discussion over there is great and helps really break down and analyse the messages being played out underneath the spin, hype, and hyperbole.

This shot, from the NY Times really wow-ed me. The bagnewsnotes title was, "The First Post-American President?" and this and some other recent campaign trail photos of all three candidates have been the basis for some great discussion and information.

I really like this photo of Barack, he seems comfortable in his skin, cool and competent. This picture says to me, confidence but not arrogance. And yes, I know I am biased. But like I said, Bagnews does interesting shots and discussion of all the candidates and news, something for everyone.

h/t to Michael and Donna
(image: Doug Mills/The New York Times. May 22, 2008. Bozeman, Montana. via nytimes.com)

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