The styling is impeccable. (If I were Apple, I’d lodge a defamation suit or at least demand a huge product placement fee.) The talent, excellent (and politically correct). The storytelling is mesmerizing. (I admit it, I paid attention. I had no idea where it was going.) But the message? Obama is—surprise—cast as the villain, the…
As elections go, the recent presidential contest was pretty ugly. But Morteza Karimi has transformed it into a thing of beauty with a red/blue infographic that arrays the key words and memes that held pride of place in social media, specifically Twitter. The visualization came together by sorting out and finding commonalities among key words…
Money, politics and advertising. The trifecta of misery this time of year. As a resident of Washington, DC, I’ve been treated to a surfeit of unimaginative attack ads, mostly centered in Virginia, which is not only a swing state in the presidential race but is engaged in a tough fight for its political and civic…