Tellng a Newspaper By Its Cover

One of the things that is still very cool about England is that the big London broadsheet newspapers have a way with the cover art. They didn't hesitate, on September 12th, to devote the entire front page to a photograph. American editiors, and newspapers, just don't seem to have the technology or the courage to make a big splash. The cover of this mornings Washington Post is very boring indeed; but the online "cover" is wonderful, particularly the photo of the interior of the Capitol rotunda. This has to be the first-ever time I've preferred the design and look of an online version to the printed.