Re-Election of Bush

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nov. 4, 2004

British newspapers carry the story of U.S. President
George W. Bush's election win on their front pages.
Thursday Nov. 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)

LONDON -- The re-election of President Bush dominated
British newspapers Thursday, and many cast
impartiality aside in reporting the result.

"How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" the liberal
Daily Mirror asked in a Page One headline. Inside,
several pages of coverage were headed "U.S. election
disaster."

The Independent bore the front-page headline "Four
more years" on a black page with grim pictures
including a hooded Iraqi prisoner and an orange-clad
detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

The left-leaning Guardian led its features section
with a black page bearing the tiny words, "Oh, God."
Inside a story described how Bush's victory
"catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression."