From our White House Photo Blog:
Miscellany
Haiti in Photographs
For much of my first week in Haiti I traveled with Life Magazine photographer Keith Marlowe. We met through TIME/Life folks in Miami and probably somewhat foolhardily drove nine hours from Santo Domingo into the unknown that was Port-au-Prince less than 72-hours after the devastating 7.0 earthquake. He has today a gallery up of his work …
Fox News: The Most Trusted Name In TV News
Really. According to Public Policy Polling, via Taegan Goddard:
Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News. Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust
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1,000 Words: Headgear Edition
1,000 Words: Horror in Haiti
1,000 Words: Vladimir and Dmitry’s Excellent Adventure
TIME.com has a surreal photo essay on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ski vacation together:
1,000 Words: Black Helicopter Edition
1,000 Words: Happy New Year Edition
Try as I might to keep my string going, I could find no photos of Richard Nixon celebrating the New Year. Except for this one, which really doesn’t count, because it’s Chinese New Year.
But we do have this one of how the shamans of Peru are marking the occasion. (For more of an explanation, go to our White House Photo Blog.)
1,000 Words: Merry Christmas Edition
Merry Christmas to all our Swampland readers!
And for your own Christmas reading, here’s some new insight into Dickens.
Inside the Secret Service
This is way more than 1,000 words. In this photo essay for LIFE, Brooks Kraft gives us an inside view of the lives of the Secret Service agents who protect the President. It’s worth a clickthrough, though this one is my favorite.
1,000 Words: Snow Edition
1,000 Words: Free Bo!
From the White House photofeed. It seems there were too many of those accidents on the Oval Office carpet:
1,000 Words: Do-It-Yourselfer Edition
From the President’s trip to an Alexandria, Va., Home Depot the other day. (H/T @delrayser, who called this one to my attention):
