obama front pages ::
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009:: below is a sampling of how the Chinese mainstream media covered President Obama’s inauguration on their front pages today (January 21, 2009). All images courtesy of AB报. Inspired by Danwei’s collage of front pages when Obama won the Presidential election.
Some of the headlines above read (in translation):
- Obama takes up his post
- The White House changes masters
- Obama has taken up his post as President of the United States
- Obama assumes office
- “And he’s off!”
- Obama takes over the United States
- Black president moves into the White House
- The Horse has assumed office, effective immediately (note: “Obama” is transliterated in Chinese as “奥巴马” with the “马” character meaning “horse;” accordingly, he is often nicknamed “The Horse” (马) or the “Black Horse” (黑马) in China.)
- Obama is sworn into his post
- America has entered the Obama era
- President Obama has started work
- White House, black horse
- The first black man to take over the White House: the era of Obama as helmsman
- The stage curtain has opened on the Obama era
- America starts the Obama era
- Bush steps down, Obama steps up
- Obama’s time has come
- The Obama era stage curtain opens amidst crisis
- Transformational change: Obama takes charge of the U.S.
// AjS
