Newseum Covers and Visual Rhetoric

Newseum is a website that has front covers from various newspapers all across the country. I went through several cities in California to figure out that different forms of visual rhetoric that it represents for the city. The first was The Daily Breeze which is based in Torrance, California. The Daily Breeze only really tells news in the greater Los Angeles areas and the counties around Torrance. It has a nice comfortable feel for the local news. The second was The Los Angeles Times which is for the entirety of Los Angeles and gives more news from across the country. This is expected for one of the bigger newspapers in the country and it shows because it has a huge cover that covers a wide range of topics and looks very professional and approachable. The last city newspaper cover was The San Gabriel Valley Tribune which is based in West Covina, California. This is the smallest city of the three I've looked at and it shows because its top story is a story based in San Gabriel even with the bigger news story, "Images emerge of 'unseeable' supermassive black hole, confirming Einstein's prediction of over a century to go," on the majority of the cover. This cover has a combination of the local news and national news. It's much more interesting to me when the news has a wider variety of stories instead of the local news, but having a local newspaper feels a lot closer to home and grounded compared to the country wide newspapers.


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