Anth/Soc 345: Media, Politics and Propaganda

Winter 2011

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Anti-propaganda

 

Here are some images that suggest the White House doesn't have complete control over the media.

Any caption ideas?

No detail left untaken care of. Or something like that.

Welcome to the Baghdad Green Zone! Where are they headed? Just around the corner (to freedom and democracy)!

Some paparazzi caught this one--the Commander-in-Chief falling off of a Segway.

NOT from the official White House Photo Gallery

This also is NOT the White House Photo gallery (but is on many sites on the web). These are obviously unfair portrayals. News outlets get to decide what photos to use, though. Dick Cheney's usally looks like this:

Michael Dukakis ran for president in 1988. This picture didn't help.

Well Americans, could you vote for a guy in a body suit, with shower cap, on his hands and knees (the democrats just don't understand the photo-op)??

This and the following are from Abu Ghraib prison--what the mainstream media referred to as 'abuse' (and Rush Limbaugh called nothing more than some guys letting off steam)

Here's specialist Charles Graner (one with the glasses, arms folded) at his trial

These photos are all over Iraq. Their spread has preceded the growth of the insurgency. Coincidence?

 

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