The Albuquerque Journal North devoted almost half a page to reproduce life-sizeon Saturday's edition our NEW MEXICO SUN NEWS cover with the Headline, "Obama Wins!"
Caption: Going out on a limb, the left-leaning New Mexico Sun News---a free twice-monthly paper published in Santa Fe---proclaimed "Obama Wins!" on the cover of its Firday edition. The headline is "kind of a journalistic stunt," and the paper's way of endorsing Barack Obama for Presidents, Contributing Editor Stephen Fox said. With the Chicago Daily Tribune's infamous "Dewey Defeats Truman" 1948 headline in mind, is the Sun News worried about jinxing obama? "No, said Editor Jerry Greenker. "I'm not a very superstitious guy."
"OBAMA WINS!" First American Newspaper with this Headline, 11 days before Election Day: Our Endorsement for the New Mexico Sun News
ALSO AT: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stephenfox/gGgfHy
This was the front cover of Friday's edition of the New Mexico Sun News, circulation 11,000, Northern and Central New Mexico.
This was the idea of the Managing Editor, Jerry Greenker, kind of as a declaration of our own support, our own way of endorsing OBAMA, kind of as an affirmation, kind of a doctoral thesis in Political Journalism, kind of a journalistic stunt, and kind of the reason that people are driven to write science fiction, to see which of their predictions actually come true!
Since I had been scrutinizing through some of the best reading in my life, the newspaper endorsements for Obama from all over the United States, I had a plan to publish as much as would be allowed in a 32 page twice monthly local and alternative newspaper. This fit in well with Jerry's Idea, so we went for it, and are happy to share this with mybarackobama.com readers.
Respectfully,
Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor New Mexico Sun News Founder, New Millennium Fine Art stephen@santafefineart.com 505 983-2002
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