The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach gets all giddy about the veritable run on the news stands as people rushed to grab their historic copy of the November 5, 2008, newspaper. Pictured above is one of the better Times-Dispatch A1 treatments I've seen in some time.
Amazing scene outside The Washington Post on 15th Street: Hundreds and hundreds of people are lined up to buy a commemorative edition of today's newspaper. Shown here are Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli and publisher Katharine Weymouth (how'd she get so many copies?) holding the paper. I heard that we're printing 250,000 copies of it. [Update: K-wey says they're increasing the run to 350,000.] The line stretches from the entrance all the way up the block, to M Street, and then hangs a left onto M. Post employees are allowed one copy each, which they're picking up in the lobby. Many of us, though, are fascinated by what we're seeing on the street -- because people obviously still want the physical, tangible thing that we sell (at least on this particular day!). One editor told me, "This is the happiest I've been since I've been here." (I'm going back outside now to try to sell subscriptions.)
