Just Curious

Please state the answer in the form of a question... Just Curious is the occassional blog of Andrew Nelson. In an attempt to balance the polemical tone of most of the blogosphere, all entries hope to pose at least one useful question. Many entries simply advance useful memes. Personal entries may abandon the interrogative conceit.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

how did the press cover the London bombings?

This article from the Boston Phoenix, cited by Romenesko, provides a useful analysis. One thing the author seems to have overlooked is the "Anglophilia" element to much of the coverage. I think I counted four independent Churchill references in the Trib (tho the rhetoric of Bush, Blair or the Trib editorial board got nowhere close). Actually, if anyone can find a truly Churchillian response to the bombings, I'd like to see it.

Another question -- is there an equivalent to this Boston Phoenix story for 9/11? I know it would have to be a very large document, but I would love to see a long essay simply describing all the press reactions for the first 24 hours. The reactions after that are, as they say, history...

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