Newspapers cover attacks with extra editions, expanded papers

"TERROR."\nThe word screamed in banner headlines across the country Tuesday, as newspapers put out extras, added pages and dropped ads to report the boldest terrorist attacks ever on U.S. soil.\nOne of the many papers that used that single word was the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel with a subhead saying:\n'Attacks rip Trade Center, Pentagon, America's Soul.'\nThe Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a morning paper, printed an afternoon edition with the headline, 'Who Would Do This?'\nThe headline of The Billings (Mont.) Gazette's special edition said: 'Oh My God!'\nThe Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., had 35,000 copies on the streets by midafternoon, hours after attackers leveled the World Trade Center towers 15 miles away and struck the Pentagon.\n'TERROR ATTACKS STRIKE THE U.S' read the headline on the cover of the eight-page edition, which included photographs, maps and graphics.\nNewsday, which covers New York's Long Island and part of New York City, put out a 24-page extra.\n"We're going all out for tomorrow," said Charlotte Hall, a managing editor.\nPlans called for "basically abandoning everything else in the paper but this," she said. Minimal space would be devoted to business, sports and other sections of the paper, while more than 50 pages would be devoted to the attacks.\nThe New York Post also printed a special edition.\nThe Wall Street Journal evacuated its headquarters just four blocks from the World Trade Center. Editors and reporters worked from home and from a technical center in South Brunswick, N.J., where a makeshift newsroom was set up.\n"We'll get a paper out," said Steven Goldstein, a spokesman for Dow Jones & Co., the newspaper's publisher. "Our ability to report and print was not affected."\nGoldstein said he saw several people leap to their deaths from high floors in the World Trade Center as he and other Dow Jones employees were waiting for a ferry to take them across the Hudson River.\n"It's the kind of thing you don't forget easily," he said.\nThe Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville published an eight-page special edition, distributing 20,000 copies shortly after noon with the six-column headline 'TERROR.'\n"This incident has shocked people," Editor Pat Yack said. "There's nothing in people's lifetimes, with the possible exception of Pearl Harbor and President Kennedy's assassination, that matches it."\nNeil Brown, managing editor of the St. Petersburg Times, which put out a special edition, said: "It's a stunning experience that we're all sharing together."\nThe Tampa Tribune distributed a special edition headlined "TERROR: Terrorism against our nation will not stand."\n"America Attacked," announced the headline of a 12-page special edition of The Orange County (Calif.) Register.\nThe Los Angeles Times put out an eight-page extra, while across town the Daily News of Los Angeles produced an extra--as did The Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle.\nThe Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., wrapped a four-page extra around its regular edition.\nIn Louisiana, The News-Star in Monroe printed an extra afternoon edition while The Town Talk in Alexandria dumped ads to make room for coverage in Wednesday morning's paper. Lake Charles' American Press added pages in its Wednesday edition, from 48 to 64, and devoted its entire 16-page front section, with no ads, to terrorism coverage.\nThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch's extra was the sixth it has produced since 1994. The others were after the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder case in 1996, Mark McGwire's 61st and 62nd home runs in 1998, the plane crash that killed Gov. Mel Carnahan in October 2000, and the too-close-to-call presidential election in November 2000. Before the Simpson case, the newspaper had not produced an extra since World War II, spokesman Matt Davis said.\nFor The Kansas City Star, this was the first special edition since July 21, 1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, said Miriam Pepper, its readers' representative.\nFor many papers, including The Morning Star of Wilmington, N.C., and The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., it was the first extra they've published since President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.\nThe Tulsa World put out its first special edition since World War II.\nThe Washington Post put out a "Special Late Edition" and published 50,000 copies with the banner headline "Terror Hits Pentagon, World Trade Center" and a huge photo of smoke billowing from the Trade Center and the second plane about to crash into it.\nThe Post kept all the interior sections but changed 22 pages of the front section. It also added an editorial titled "War," in which it likened the attack to Pearl Harbor and said that if it is determined to be the work of overseas terrorists, "It is an act of war and must be treated as such."\n"Attacks Level Trade Center" was the double-decker headline streamed across the top of The Philadelphia Inquirer above a photograph of the smoke-shrouded buildings and the aircraft that was about to strike it.\nInside, the Inquirer edition, which hit the streets at about 2 p.m., ran photographs of Manhattan pedestrians watching in horror and of President Bush learning of the attacks.\nThe Daily News, a tabloid, simply had the word "ATTACK!" on its cover with a listing of stories inside.\nThe Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, Houston Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal and The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., all put out extras as well.\nThe front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas included an editorial calling for calm.\n"Attacks like the ones we have witnessed today tend to eliminate the hyphens in our labels," the editorial stated. "We are Americans, and we will deal with this latest tragedy as Americans. And to those responsible: You have made a terrible mistake."\nThe San Diego Union-Tribune also ran an editorial, which concluded: "The terrorists responsible for today's attacks have dealt a blow to the nation's psyche. But through its 225-year history, this great nation has been confronted by many foes. And we Americans have never shrunk from battle, have never given in. We will not now."\nThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorialized: "We are living through another day of infamy. Sept. 11, 2001, will live alongside Dec. 7, 1941, as a day when America changed"