Thursday, November 06, 2008

Newspapers Cash in On Obama Win

More Obama wins cartoons here.

All I could find the morning after was the Wall Street Journal and they had a relatively boring cover. I guess this proves that newspapers could stay in business if Obama was elected every day.
MSNBC: WASHINGTON - It was a good day to be in the newspaper business. The historic November 5 editions proclaiming Barack Obama's White House victory flew off the newsstands and major newspapers struggled to keep up with the demand for copies.

Those who didn't rise early enough or who lacked the foresight to keep up their subscriptions to the print editions could find them online, but at a steep price. By early on Wednesday evening, nearly 800 sellers offered copies for sale on eBay.

Print newspapers have seen declining readership in recent years, forcing newsroom cutbacks, as more readers turn to Internet sources for news. But on such a historic occasion, traditional newspapers had their day.
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"It's Obama," proclaimed the Los Angeles Times, which decided to keep its presses running to meet demand from the steady stream of people who came to its offices to buy papers. It printed at least 100,000 extra copies. Still, it was offered in one eBay auction for $40.

One optimistic seller offered immediate purchase of The Charlotte Observer of Charlotte, North Carolina, for $2,000.