The Muppets Attack Fox News

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blaaargh:

I think these graphics kind of imply that the American version of TIME is somehow dumbed down, but in reality the American covers are what the issue is produced to look like, and the covers for the rest of the world are just localizations from that main issue — they drop the cover story because its usually too American-centric, and they pick the story with the most international relevance. That’s just how magazines are made. 

Draw your own conclusions…

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WATCH: Inside Anderson Cooper Office

Because we f’ing love The Coop! And LURVED when Vladimir Duthiers calls him a “silverfox” to his face!

CNN anchor Don Lemon came out in a New York Times article published yesterday and in his new book Transparent. The paper writes:

Mr. Lemon has not made a secret of his sexual orientation in his work life; many of his CNN co-workers and managers have long been aware that he is gay. But he still acknowledged that going public in his book carries certain risks.

“I’m scared,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’m talking about something that people might shun me for, ostracize me for.”

Even beyond whatever effect his revelation might have on his television career, Mr. Lemon said he recognized this step carried special risk for him as a black man.

“It’s quite different for an African-American male,” he said. “It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think you can pray the gay away.” He said he believed the negative reaction to male homosexuality had to do with the history of discrimination that still affects many black Americans, as well as the attitudes of some black women.

“You’re afraid that black women will say the same things they do about how black men should be dating black women.” He added, “I guess this makes me a double minority now.”

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WATCH: NBC Universal’s “It Gets Better” Video

Featured in the video is long time friend of daniel extra, Raphael Miranda, a meteorologist who notes that he’s been with his husband for 7 years at 4:44. It’s a well put together video with sobering, if not depressing, statistics on suicide and bullying on LGBT youth. Also, I’d like to make Thomas Roberts my husband.

If you’re facing bullying and depression, please seek help. Call The Trevor Project at 866.488.7386.

Photographers in peril

Readers and picture editors view the pictures of conflict in safety and comfort. But for the soldiers fighting the wars, and the civilians caught up in them, conflict is anything but safe and comfortable. We are witness to their stories and tragedies thanks to people who willingly put themselves into the same lines of fire as the protagonists - photographers. Covering conflict has always been dangerous, and many famous photojournalists have given their lives doing it. Robert Capa, Larry Burrows - the list is awful and endless. But lately several incidents have made it seem like the dangers have increased. Land mines have seriously wounded photographers in the past few years. Two photographers for the New York Times, Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, were taken prisoner with their writing colleagues for several days in Libya, and were beaten and abused. Other photographers have gone missing as well, such as Khaled al-Hariri, Roberto Schmidt, Joe Raedle, and Altaf Qadri. All are safe now.

-Lane Turner

[(Left to right) Reuters photographer Khaled al-Hariri, Agence France-Presse photographer Roberto Schmidt, New York Times photographers Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle, Reuters freelancer Sabah al-Bazee, Associated Press photographer Altaf Qadri. (Reuters, AFP/Getty Images, AP/The New York Times, Fred Conrad/AP/The New York Times, AFP/Getty Images, Reuters, AP]

See some of their work here.

Killed Lensman Tim Hetherington as Anti-Photographer

Q. Do you consider yourself a photographer?

A. If you are interested in mass communication, then you have to stop thinking of yourself as a photographer. We live in a post-photographic world. If you are interested in photography, then you are interested in something — in terms of mass communication — that is past. I am interested in reaching as many people as possible…I am not interested in putting a black border around a photograph as a way of saying that is authentic. You know, “protecting photography.”

War Photographer Tim Hetherington interviewed by another war photographer Michael Kamber on Restrepo and the Imagery of War.

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‘Verizon Guy’ Paul Marcarelli is a Homo. Who Knew?

THE MARCH OF TYRANNY

This political cartoon, more broadly, depicts the systemic dysfunction of the two-party duopoly who are at the behest of global corporatism. I love how this one also takes to task the mainstream media for its role in amplifying the skewed rhetoric that emerges from the corporations-media-political system triumvirate.

And silly voters, who keep oscillating between the two parties like they are enacting fundamental change….

(via waronidiocy)