This makes sense, I guess, since I receive the "National Edition," which must include less NYC specific news. Thankfully, it has the image I was looking for, but I guess this means that there's no way for me to get an electronic copy of the Times that is *exactly* the same as my print edition.

I am certainly aware that news publications usually have different staff editing the web content and the print content, and that they usually treat the web as a more ephemeral format, it was hard for me to believe that an image this powerful would be so difficult to find on their website.

Normally, I turn to Factiva when I want to "clip" an article that I originally read in the print edition, but the electronic version of most publications like the Times does not contain any of the images or ads of the print edition. This can be a BIG deal when the thing that sparked your interest was an image or an image in the context of the rest of the page's contents.

So how can a guy point his friends to a powerful image in a print edition of the Times without cutting and scanning the image from the paper itself? I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like fair use (and good buzz for the Times) for me to be able to share this. Ideally I could just point a link to the article via their website, but that would serve no purpose since the image is apparently not available via the online edition.

Argh.... why does this have to be so complicated? I was moved by the image and story in the print edition, but I am not at all moved by what I see in their online edition. I realize they serve different purposes and perhaps different markets, but why not at least make it easier to see what the cover of the newsstand edition looks like?

You're poaching audience from yourselves, folks.