This now famous front page appeared on Thursday, December 3.
This has been on the cover far too often. https://t.co/kpSUXcAiOA pic.twitter.com/BrHzTr5zsU
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 3, 2015
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And it was followed today by an even more daring, if less creative, front page. Note how the photographs denote insanity, the staging of madness.
The New York Daily News is waging a war against the NRA through bold covers. https://t.co/2pduH6WgWl pic.twitter.com/1MGj0DZMEz
— Mashable (@mashable) December 4, 2015
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The New York Daily News is a tabloid, so attention-grabbing front pages are typical of the genre. Still, it's startling to see such blunt editorializing on the front page of an American newspaper.
The Daily News' editor, Jim Rich, is carrying out his gun control campaign on Twitter, which is where you'd expect it to be.
True Americans here, huh Jihadi Wayne? @NRA Gun execs boast of post-massacre sales spikes: https://t.co/PwLLA0Yx3j @NYDailyNews @ggreenwald
— Jim Rich (@jimrichNYDN) December 4, 2015
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While these headlines won't have any effect in getting actual gun control legislation passed at the federal level, they indicate how high the polemical volume has been turned up in this presidential election.
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