Historical context

The tabloid front page compresses a decade of War-on-Terror rhetoric into a single word. Herald's treatment — full-bleed portrait, one-word declarative, red banner promising "JUSTICE AT LAST FOR 9/11 MASTERMIND" — is representative of the American newsstand response that morning.

Curatorial notes

Filed adjacent to the "Wipe Out Hussein" and "Take a Dump with Donald Trump" novelty toilet-paper entries. Together they triangulate how the American war on terror moved from the front page to the checkout counter to the bathroom.

Interpretive themes

• — Wartime Media
• — News as Object
• — Print in the American Everyday