BostonNow is the Daily Show of Boston newspapers: It's put to bed too early in the day to get actual election results, so they just make stuff up. Or, as Jason Feifer remarks on today's cover story: Dewey defeats Clinton:
Somehow, Boston Metro was able to get the real story in print.
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That's not what the printed paper looks like
By Ron Newman
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:00pm
The printed Boston NOW looks entirely different from that, with a cover focusing on McCain's victory.
Agreed
By Anonymous
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:16pm
I don't know where that cover image came from, but McCain is on the cover of my copy of the Boston NOW sitting next to me. The other storylines at the top are the same though, so it looks like they printed an up-to-date cover but were prepared for something else and let that stay in the digital realm somehow.
Technically speaking
By Othemts
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:06pm
...nowhere on that cover does it say Obama won. It says it was a big day where independent voters could help Obama to victory in NH. Obviously this kind of pre-election story the day after the election is not very timely, but it also isn't the case that Boston Now is making things up about election results.
Makes me wonder what Super Bowl Monday's paper will look like
By Ron Newman
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:13pm
Did they even manage to put the Red Sox pennant and World Series victories on their front page?
That front is from an early
By Greece is the word
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:16pm
That front is from an early edition... many of which found their way into the boxes today. The McCain cover must be their "replate," which means they must have a whopping 7 p.m. cutoff.
That front is also still on their Web site
By adamg
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:29pm
http://www.bostonnow.com/print_edition - click on Jan. 9. It still showed that as of five minutes ago. It's where I got the screen capture - BostonNow doesn't have a very high penetration rate at the office parks along Rte. 9 in Southborough.
You got exactly as much news
By Anonymous
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 4:18pm
You got exactly as much news as you paid for.