Press Trumpets News of War
The nation’s newspapers trumpeted the beginning of war in the Middle East with oversized headlines, wraparound extras and colorful maps designed to help readers understand a military conflict half a world away.
Within one hour and 15 minutes after the announcements Wednesday night that war had erupted, the thrice-weekly Bullhead City (Ariz.) Booster had an eight-page extra on the streets of the Colorado River community and over the border in Laughlin, Nev.
Some of the nation’s largest newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, gave over the entire front pages of their early editions to news of war.
“U.S. and Allies Open Air War on Iraq,” The New York Times declared in a headline stretching across the top of the page.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin also published an extra edition Wednesday night.
The Seattle Times, an afternoon daily, published two extra editions Wednesday night--the newspaper’s first extras since Dec. 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
Among other newspapers publishing extra editions Wednesday were the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the News Journal of Wilmington, Del., and the Orange County Register.
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