All morning (okay, all three hours I’ve been up), I’ve been crawling all over the interwebs, devouring everything I could find about what happened last night. The whole Proposition 8 nonsense out in California is dampening an otherwise banner day. But as other people have pointed out quite eloquently and diplomatically, tides turn — Obama’s parents’ union was illegal in many states at one time and now look how far we’ve come — and social justice will prevail. We have taken a step in the right direction nationally; let’s keep up the momentum.
I’ve been trying and trying to get Newseum to play nice and let me see the foreign front pages but it just won’t cooperate. But I have a pretty good idea of what they say and show. And that thought makes me warm and fuzzy with pride.
I did get the site to work long enough to notice that a lot of American papers went with a poster treatment. Here’s what The CA did (Incidentally, I just noticed that “commercialappeal.com” in the top right ear is not centered correctly; how did that happen!?!?!). I’m a nerd, so I’ve got a roundup of some of the more interesting pages after the jump.
The Courant‘s treatment is really interesting. I had joked a couple of times with Rebecca that I thought we should flip the page and design horizontally. And then yesterday I was talking with one of the night editors and he was talking about how tabloids will do that sometimes — design the outside spread as a poster. And I thought to myself, given the Courant‘s redesigned flag, would they attempt a horizontal design at some point? Well, guess what, Ethel: I’M PSYCHIC.
That said, I don’t necessarily like it all that much.
I liked the horizontal design but couldn’t help wondering how it would look in the box. Then I kinda stopped liking it.
But I love the Trib cover because it looks like he’s dribbling the “O.”