| Day Before Aug. 24, 2008 (Aug. 25 Newspapers) |
Day One Aug. 25, 2008 (Aug. 26 Newspapers) |
Day Two Aug. 26, 2008 (Aug. 27 Newspapers) |
Day Three Aug. 27, 2008 (Aug. 28 Newspapers) |
Day Four Aug. 28, 2008 (Aug. 29 Newspapers) |
| Summary: Based on an "at a glance" look at a number of front pages, the closing of the Beijing Olympic games was the lead story in many of Monday morning's papers. A significant number of papers did run convention "stage setters" on the front page; a few ran articles about the state delegation. Photos included various shots of preparations in Pepsi Center as well as of Obama campaigning in Wisconsin on his way towards Denver. NEWSEUM |
| Newspaper |
Headlines/Reporters |
Photos/Photographers |
| New York Times (Late Edition) |
"Anxious Party Hopes to Show Strong Obama" - Adam Nagourney. ...on the fold "Blacks Debate Civil Rights Risk in Obama's Rise" - Rachel L. Swarns. |
Workers putting up the Delaware sign in Pepsi Center.
- Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images. |
| Washington Post (Final Edition) | "Party
Unity Topes Agenda For Democrats" -"Obama Heads to Denver Via Key States" - Shailagh Murray and Anne E. Kornblutt (WP). -"Experience Is Double-Edged Sword for The Ticket" [about Biden] - Jonathan Weisman (WP). |
[photo
closing of Beijing Olympic games] |
| Los Angeles Times | [lead
article Beijing Olympic games] |
[photo
closing of Beijing Olympic games] |
| ...below the fold 1. "Gala's big donors happen to have issues of their own" Tom Hamburger and Vimal Patel (LAT). 2. "'Part celebration and part anxiety'" - Mark Z. Barabak (LAT). |
Wide
shot of Obama, audience at Wisconsin rally. - Joe Raedle, Getty. |
| Boston Globe | "Seeking
unity, Obama confronts divergent audiences" -"Small college awakened future senator to service" - Scott Helman (BG). -"Convention faces shifting challenges" - Sasha Issenberg (BG). |
[main
photo is closing of Beijing Olympic games] MCU of Obama campaiging in Eau Claire, WI. - Alex Brandon, AP. |
| Chicago Tribune | "Obama's
wife looks to set the tone / In opening speech mother, lawyer faces
task of defining herself" - Dahleen Glanton (Trib.). Amid bustle of convention an examination of being American - Dawn Turner Trice (Trib.). |
Small photo of Obama art in a gallery. -
Michael Tercha, Tribune. |
| Copyright © 2008 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action |
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