The Argument Culture in Action

I've been monitoring the coverage of the protests (uprising, revolution, unrest, etc) in the Middle East with a bit more skeptical eye since reading Tannen.
Look at the slide show on the front page of the New York Times website from today, and see if you can identify some themes that Tannen talked about in her chapters on the media:

http://www.nytimes.com/

Even though the events of the past few days have become decidedly more violent, there's certainly a pattern in these photos: violence, conflict, machismo. Where are the peace-keepers/makers? Where are the medical personnel? Where are the peaceful protesters? And, in the event that this latest wave of violence has made those things impossible, where was the 20 slide photo slideshow when the protests were non-violent, peaceful, and celebratory?

All the News that's Fit to Print (but only if it's violent and we can get some sweet action shots of people hurting each other).