A look at how some of this morning’s California newspapers covered last night’s massive San Bruno natural gas explosion and fire:
More after the jump — including a bunch using the very same photo as the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Daily News, and a few others with a very similar photo of the fireball. That’s interesting to me, because actually, I thought the far more newsworthy and emotionally compelling (if not as photographically beautiful) images are the shots taken from TV helicopters overhead, showing that whole suburban neighborhood ablaze:
See also here and here. If I were a newspaper editor in California, I think that’s the photo I would have gone with, even if was a little bit more grainy than the shot of firefighters silhouetted by an Ohio-shaped wall of fire, which, while visually arresting, doesn’t really tell us much about the scope of this disaster.
Anyway, like I said, more front pages (via the Newseum) are after the jump.
