New York Times Plays Race Card to Raise Circulation
The New York Times' non-story about Obama's casual relationship with Bill Ayers is their version of the odiously unfunny New Yorker cover of Obama dressed like a terrorist.
The New York Times' non-story about Obama's casual relationship with Bill Ayers is their version of the odiously unfunny New Yorker cover of Obama dressed like a terrorist.
Stephen Chao | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media
All of this racial innuendo in the headlines and on magazine covers seems to be lopsided... and manufactured by the media itself. Perhaps the populace is simply more in touch than the press?
New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
The controversial July 21 cover of The New Yorker portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim has been a virtual sellout on ...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
One more cartoon deserves mention: Walt Handlesman's view on how a prototypical New Yorker reader ..."Urbane! ... Abstract!" ...views the cover is spot on. Check it out.
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
The moral perspective of the New Yorker cover was buried at the bottom of the table of contents on page two -- fiendishly understated, you might say.
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
The media's self-censoring is not reverse racism. It's just racism. If only "positive" views of Obama are allowed, it's only because we believe he needs protection.
Bart Motes | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
All of us, including Barack Obama, should hope that the Obama campaign did not snub Ryan Lizza, not only because of what it would tell us about Obama, but because of what Lizza is capable of telling us.
Vanity Fair | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete f...
Bruce Kluger | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
Who can blame viewers for wanting a little cavorting with their reporting? Today's voters toggle easily between sober op-eds and faux-news analysts squirting seltzer down the candidates' pants.
Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 07.20.2008 | Media
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Lee Siegel's extremely smart piece about the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as anti-Americ...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
The imagery on the cover of the New Yorker represents the quality of conversation on race and religion in this country: mixed messages, nothing decoded.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
Shouldn't the New Yorker now give equal time to the factors that could likewise define the McCain campaign -- his one-ness with the incumbent, his age, his unbalanced temper, his misogyny?
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
There are worse things than being serious. Being robbed of a country that that we can be proud of is one. We are voting for Obama to restore hope and national pride, without which laughter makes no sense.
Charlie Rose | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
Bob Franken | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
The "More of the Same with John McCain" campaign continues its uphill ride on the Straight Talk Express. McCain's best hope is is that the Democrats will find some ridiculous way to lose this election.
Irshad Manji | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
In shocking people with so many fierce images at once, the New Yorker has handed Barack Obama an opportunity to score three timely campaign victories.
Tony Hendra | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
On Tuesday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took on the media and Barack Obama for overreacting to, and thus validating, the New Yorker cover controversy. ...
Laura Flanders | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
Sam Greenfield | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
I understand the satiric tone of the cartoon, and I would think that in a world blessed with a sense of humor, it would be a non-issue. Sadly, we do not have the same sense of humor we used to.
Peter Clothier | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
The New Yorker forgot the vast mass of voters who lack the critical discrimination to read their cover in other than literal terms: those many who will understand it at face value, not for its ironical intention.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
The media never looked at the cover as racist on its face, exploiting a stereotype that is only denounced when it is wrapped around a popular presidential candidate and a minority.
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Obama will appear on Larry King tonight. Here are some excerpts. On the New Yorker cover: LARRY KING, HOST: I've heard a lot of others comment on i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
[UPDATED, below.] Andrew Sullivan pulls this editorial cartoon from David Horsey, and asks, "How would the Republican base react to this?" Of cour...
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
We are all terrified, plain and simple, that somehow the right-wing smear campaign will succeed in defeating our candidate. We are the ones who have become... not stupid, but scared-stupid and irrational.
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Trey Ellis | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media