The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names
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Source: NY Times
The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names
A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss.
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Instead of the articles, photographs or graphics that normally appear on the front page of The New York Times, on Sunday, there is just a list: a long, solemn list of people whose lives were lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
As the death toll from Covid-19 in the United States approaches 100,000, a number expected to be reached in the coming days, editors at The Times have been planning how to mark the grim milestone.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/reader-center/coronavirus-new-york-times-front-page.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Me.
(35,454 posts)has been given a one sentence obituary
George II
(67,782 posts)KS Toronado
(17,344 posts)applegrove
(118,808 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)No sweat! There's plenty of time for Donald to play golf.
Lock him up.
(6,941 posts)And then went golfing on the taxpayers' dime (approx. $133,000,000) - right under.
proud patriot
(100,715 posts)So fing Mad ... and so sad ..
bedazzled
(1,771 posts)thousands of people lost in a black hole of lies
orleans
(34,074 posts)and i'm not seeing that on their front page website.
??
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....to the actual front page:
https://www.nytimes.com/
George II
(67,782 posts)Here's a link to their front page now:
https://www.nytimes.com/
Paladin
(28,276 posts)Who knows? Maybe they'll have enough courage to reinstate political cartoons in their Opinion section.....
George II
(67,782 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,741 posts)No analysis or opinion pieces.
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