According to cnn.com, newspapers have been selling rapidly across the entire United States since Wednesday when Barack Obama was declared the first black president. People have purchased at least two copies of Wednesday’s issue. There have also been three to 30 copies of all different newspapers sold throughout America as keepsakes for the historical day.
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune restarted their printing presses to make hundreds of thousands more copies to distribute. Even entrepreneurs were willing to pay $600 for Wednesday’s Times issue on eBay.
The Times printed 75,000 more copies just for New York City, while The Washington Post printed 350,000 more in the middle of the afternoon. In Evanston, Illinois, a newsstand sold 100 copies in 10 minutes, not to mention the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times who sold thousands more that day.
Newspapers like USA Today had front pages devoted to a large picture of President Obama or a piece of his acceptance speech such as, “Change has come to America."
November 4, 2008 was a day that newspapers could not be replaced by the Internet. This special day in history proves that print newspapers are unique and offer people the privilege to touch history. The historical day may have given many newspapers hope that journalism may be able to maintain its original form without print becoming completely extinct.
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I'm actually still trying to get my hands on a copy of the Times. At this point, anything will do.
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