Stop the Presses! Election Roller Coaster Makes Newspaper Publishers Wince
Posted — Updated"We pushed out deadlines back as far as we could possibly go to get the latest possible news," says Anders Gyllenhaal, the News & Observer's executive editor. "We knew it was going to be close."
The News & Observer printed four separate editions with different headlines that told story of the wild race. After their "Bush Wins" headline, the paper stopped the presses at 3:15 a.m. to replace its headline with "Bush Leads."
Many newspapers went with the early-morning projections of Bush's win. When Gore retracted his concession, it was too late for many newspaper publishers to stop the presses.
"I have three little boys, and I have a copy for each of them," one man says. "It's something that when they're older, when they're adults, they'll look back and remember this to be a very historic time for them."
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