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Iran on Today’s Front Pages

June 16, 2009

Well. Here’s how the New York Post today plays the news from Iran. I’m guessing they’re alone with that headline, but I’ll take a look at other papers and report back on what I find:



By far the most common front-page image is the somewhat less furious-looking shot below of protesters in Azadi Square (often, a version by the Associated Press’s Ben Curtis). The Sacramento Bee pairs that image with the headline, “TWEETS CARRY ANGER IN IRAN,”( and prints a handful of Twitter messages on A-1). On its front page the Hartford Courant, too, credits Twitter with “getting the word out.”













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And, a couple of other treatments:







Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.