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07/28/2016
Bill or Hillary? Newspapers face front-page conundrum on nomination night
Even on an historic night for both, Hillary and Bill Clinton could not avoid a media controversy not of their own making.
For the first time, a woman was nominated to be a major party presidential nominee. For the first time, too, a former president was speaking on behalf of his spouse at a convention.
By and large, it would appear a simple proposition: Lead with news of her nomination and some photo of her if one were available. But that was complicated by both Bill's notable speech and, in particular, its length, which pushed her brief appearance by satellite to slightly later than planned, just after 11 p.m. Eastern time.
So for the likes of The Wall Street Journal, it meant using a photo of Bill for their first edition of the print paper. Hillary had not yet appeared, and the paper wanted a live photo from the event.
