That demo/riot in full: same picture, different stories

Those on yesterday’s student fees protest march were often angry to find that their largely peaceful march had been portrayed in the media as a bloody assault upon Conservative Party HQ. See this blog from yesterday for example. Todays’ front pages appear to confirm that impression with even the sympathetic left wing press using the same dramatic image of a classic demo thug attacking an innocent pane of glass with fire raging in the background. But the coverage is not so simple with papers taking quite nuanced lines. Here’s a flavour of the front pages: