Public-Ity (Introduction) -- Pt. I. Public pictures. 1. Popular Reality: A (Hair)Brush With Cultural Studies. 2. Agoraphilia: The Politics of Pictures. 3. No Picnic: For All Flesh Is as Grass. 4. Power Viewing: A Glance at Pervasion in the Postmodern Perplex -- Pt. II. The pictures of politics. 5. The Smiling Professions: From a sea monster to synchronized swimming. 6. Heliography: Journalism and the visualization of truth. 7. Common Sense: Universal v. adversarial journalism. 8. Journalism in a Post-Truth Society: The Sexualization of the Body Politic