Above the fold: What newspapers are running online the day after the election
Posted: November 05, 2008
After President-Elect Barack Obama's decisive victory, here are a few snapshots of some of my favorite newspapers' post-Election Day home pages. Most of them are very similar, and a couple even ran the same photo, which is a shame because there are like 5 million different pictures on the wire.
The coverage on cable was more stomachable than I thought it would be. There wasn't an annoying amount of assuming or over-analyzing going on, in my opinion. I watched CNN most of the night but flipped through the different cable stations because, frankly, Wolf Blitzer can get annoying.
I watched some of the election coverage in Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications with some friends and former teachers. We knew things were going well for Obama around 9:30 p.m. As one person duly noted, it wasn't because of the numbers being flashed across the screen, it was the fact that every time they jumped to a shot of the John McCain rally, instead of showing the numbers on the jumbotrons, they just kept showing Hank Williams Jr. singing.
I was glad to see Fox News take the Obama victory well. They were very tactful and preached the same message as McCain in his concession speech: Support our new president.
I think that's something this crazy bunch of states can rally around.
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