After slogging around the Newseum today (time for a server upgrade, buddies!), I can report some Actual True Facts about newspapers' use of the Fallujah photos.

Of the 163 American newspapers on the Newseum today...

118 ran no pictures of bodies on the front page.

45 ran pictures of charred bodies in some form on the front.

33 led the front page with pictures of bodies strung up or burning.

63 led with a photo that had no bodies in it. Of these, 7 ran a smaller, secondary picture of bodies.

35 ran no pictures of the event at all on the front page. Of these, 9 also ran no story.

Newspapers that ran the bodies on the bridge photo included The Miami Herald, the Allentown Morning Call, the Palm Beach Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Tampa Trib and the St. Pete Times.

Newspapers that ran photos without bodies included The Seattle Times, the Sun-Times, the San Jose Mercury News, The Oregonian, The Detroit News, The Boston Globe and the Orlando Sentinel. The (Lakeland, Fla.) Ledger and the New York Sun appear to be among the few American papers that actually ran photos of bodies burning as their main A1 image. Canada's National Post did as well.

It would be interesting to see if there is any sort of pattern along geographic/circulation/editorial stance lines. But I ain't gonna do that. That's why God made grad students.