A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS—COVERING THE DEATH OF AN ICON
April 8 2013, Published 6:52 p.m. ET
Love her or loathe her, Margaret Thatcher was an indisputable icon of 1980s' British politics -- and the media coverage of her death on April 8th 2013 was as disparate as her polarizing political legacy.
Covering the death of an iconic figure is always interesting to consider pictorially, and whatever your personal views on Thatcher may have been, there is no disputing she had a distinct style and look, with the camera seemingly catching her uniqueness with every snap of the shutter.
We asked Chloe Millar, Senior Photo Editor, to take a look at the media coverage of Thatcher's death, weighing in on what was behind each publication's choice of image and what the result of that shows.
It was possible to guess a newspaper's political stance based purely on the front page image they chose to run alongside the story of the death of Baroness Thatcher, who led the Conservative party from 1975 - 1990 and was Britain's first female Prime