Saturday, July 3, 2010

Newseum

I liked this task tremendously. Yes, tremendously. But for some reason there seemed to be a lot of newspapers focusing on soccer, though. In fact, two different newspapers in Spain have the exact same soccer-related photo on their front pages today (they're probably affiliated, but I don't know since I can't read them). (I hope I'm not offending anybody by calling it "soccer"--we also use our own system of measurement here in America--it's because we like to be different--also, we are monolingual).
I'm really glad that anyone who gets on this site will be able to see the front page of our local paper. For instance, today (July 3rd), our paper features the mug shots of roughly twenty-two people arrested in connection with a meth ring. The Sentinel seems to be quite fond of featuring mug shots on its front page (whether it be a meth ring bust or simply the current listing of Mesa County's most wanted--people who also happen to be facing various drug-related charges, incidentally).
I like that Newseum gives the links for the papers' websites. That is really handy. The only problem I have is that newspaper websites in general seem really hard to maneuver. I think they do this on purpose so that you have to actually buy the paper. The fact that Newseum has the actual front pages of papers is pretty cool considering that that's more than you can get from the papers' own websites.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I would have reason to recommend this site to a patron. Maybe if they asked, "Is there a resource that can give me information on various newspapers from across the globe--perhaps that shows the current front pages of these papers as well?" Then I would say, "Why yes, yes there is!" You never know, it could happen. I really did enjoy this task, though.

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