Iraq continues to dominate front pages.
The Boston Globe, the
Montgomery Advertiser and
The Huntsville Times had "Four years of war," after most papers had similar headlines earlier this week.
The Standard Times was more direct with "Bad days ahead" – but what have the past 1460 days been?
In contrast,
The Bakersfield Californian had a promo to its Iraq story that was unlike any other newspaper while the
Oakland Tribune and
The Washington Post used the same photo more conventionally – discuss. But the
OC Post was unconventional, albeit a bit heavy-handed, with its Photoshopped photo combo.
The Roanoke Times was the most clear. No paper was duller-looking than
The New York Times.
Many papers went big with the big plane. The
Los Angeles Times was typically typical. Atypical was the
Casper Star Tribune's stunner of a headline, "Mr. Bush, did you kill your wife?"
The newspaper with the best front design today is the Lawrence Journal-World for its mining story.
There is nothing wrong with big photos and single-story fronts if they promote single-copy sales – particularly when the detail in the image is small, as is the case today in Lawrence. This story from Kansas' history is bound the get the attention of the Journal-World's readers.
Unlike anything else that is sold, newspapers can produce an entirely new and different product every single day, even if they rarely take advanatage of the opportunity. (See The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, above.) A surprising front page like this one may be the first step toward attracting a non-reader, then converting him or her from an occasional reader to a subscriber.
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