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New York Times Makes Powerful Statement About Guns With Cover Graphic

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“Authorities said the gunman was able to obtain the weapon legally.”The New York Times put that seemingly pedestrian sentence into high relief this weekend, elevating it to the status of cover line on the front of the outlet’s Sunday Review section.

The sentence is set in white type on a stark black background, the kind the Times often uses for the weightiest topics — think The 1619 Project.

To punctuate its importance — and also likely call out the irony of its truth — the line is repeated 15 times, each with an annotation revealing the specific mass shooting to which it applies.

The list stretches back a decade.Our Sunday Review cover this week: pic.twitter.com/T0skM9XicL— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) May 29, 2022Inside the Sunday Review are pieces on “the unbearable familiarity of Uvalde,” “the N.R.A.’s celebration in Texas” and “new approaches to gun control.”The first of those pieces highlights the now familiar repetition of facts and poignant moments we recall with each such shooting in an attempt to process the event, a repetition the cover line plays on.“The endless recalling of these bits of information and their proliferation throughout every channel of communication embed them even deeper into our consciousness.

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