A flash-y way to examine front pages

June 29, 2005 10:57 AM

Front pages from around the world in a flash. The amazing Newseum (previously referred to most recently here) now has a flash interface to show 436 front pages from 45 countries.
posted by jasper411 (14 comments total)

That is the neatest thing I've seen on the net in a while.
posted by Item at 11:09 AM on June 29, 2005

There are no newspapers in Africa. Only news.
posted by yossarian1 at 11:12 AM on June 29, 2005

Amazing. But the front pages all seem filled with horrific news, no matter where you are. Amazing and depressing...
posted by rajbot at 11:23 AM on June 29, 2005

When the Newseum was open (they are currently relocating from Rosslyn, VA to downtown Washington), they had each of the papers, larger than life, in a long display, alphabetized by state and country. Now, during construction, they built frames to house some of the papers along the sidewalk at the construction site. Pretty cool if you are in Washington... it's at 4th and Pennslyvania. The best is finding papers that run the same exact picture, or similar headlines (The NY Post and Daily News' recent "Boy, Oh Boy" headline for the Jackson verdict comes to mind).

This addition to their site is great. When will someone fold it into Google Earth?
posted by sdrawkcab at 11:48 AM on June 29, 2005

Very Cool! Thank you
posted by AllesKlar at 11:57 AM on June 29, 2005

An immense improvement to their previous, hugely useful site. Thanks for the link.
posted by juggernautco at 12:43 PM on June 29, 2005

Front pages ad newseum.

Well somebody had to.
posted by George_Spiggott at 1:54 PM on June 29, 2005

There are no newspapers in Africa.

No, there appears to be exactly one, Essahafa. Say, it looks like things are swell in Tunisia! (Funny, I could have sworn they had newspapers in, say, Egypt...)

Nice post, thanks.
posted by languagehat at 2:07 PM on June 29, 2005

Roll-over the Northeast and West of the United States papers today (6/29) and then do the same in Texas or "flyover country."

Amazing. Paints a picture of how the newspapers lean politically. A vivid one.

This is crazy-good stuff. So very cool! Thanks for posting!
posted by swerdloff at 3:14 PM on June 29, 2005

great post! ty
posted by ClanvidHorse at 3:41 PM on June 29, 2005

Jasper - are you a TFer, too?
posted by PurplePorpoise at 9:22 PM on June 29, 2005

Thanks.
posted by semmi at 10:25 PM on June 29, 2005

TFer?
posted by jasper411 at 9:47 AM on June 30, 2005

Totalfarker...
posted by swerdloff at 2:12 PM on July 1, 2005