Howard Hollem for OWI D-Day in Times Sqaure June 6 1944 The drivel that lies like a blanket over our societies still directs traffic, markets, news and the weather. If we have to believe CNN and BBC, “we” have forced Putin into some sort of moral submission (or whatever you’d call it), making him feel obliged to sit his ass down at the high diplomacy effort tables we want him seated at. The US, looking as powerful as a brainless
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Walker Evans for FSA Wild Circus near Lynchburg, South Carolina 1936 Arguably, the US lost its first PR war over Vietnam. When its young and hopeful started dying on live TV, it was over. Never again, swore spin doctors on all sides of Capitol Hill. Over the past 40-odd years, PR and spin techniques have been substantially refined, and the media – both written and TV -, hard as it may have seemed at the time, have moved much closer
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John Collier San Francisco, Monday morning after Pearl Harbor 1941 John Kerry made me laugh yesterday. Not that he seems to be a very amusing man, but then I don’t think he was looking to entertain. And there’s not a lot of funny material to be found in the Ukraine situation to begin with, obviously. But John still found an angle. Kerry, in his quest to appear muscular in his use of language and make Russia look like a nation
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G. G. Bain Traveling bridge, Marseilles, France June 30 1910 There’s never just one side to any story. The eastern – largely ethnic Russian – past of Ukraine has been saying for a while that it feared being overrun by “hordes” of their western compatriots, who ousted Yanukovych and want to move closer to Europe. This morning the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that “Armed men dispatched from Kiev to the southern Ukrainian region of Crimea attempted an overnight storm of
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