To edify TIMES readers, headlines from a somewhat earlier riot edition are included
THE MOB IN NEW-YORK
Rioting & Bloodshed. Offices Sacked
Protesters also climbed on to the canopy outside the Times headquarters and unfurled a banner that encouraged the use of the phrase “climate emergency” instead of “climate change”.
Other Outrages and Incidents
A DAY OF INFAMY AND DISGRACE SCENES BY AN EYE-WITNESS
One protester, Donna Nicolino, told the Guardian she was ready to be arrested, because “we want the New York Times as well as all the other media to treat climate change as the crisis it is”
CHARACTER OF THE MOB
She joined a line of people with arms linked on West 40th Street and Eighth Avenue, blocking the road. The group remained until they were arrested by New York City police officers.
ROVING RIOTERS, PICKPOCKETS, THIEVES & TWITTER FIENDS
New sign encourages the Times to use the same style for climate change as the Guardian does: climate emergency theguardian.com/environment/20…
THE TIMES FELL TO THE REBEL FORCES AFTER THE EDITORS WERE UNABLE TO RELOCATE THE GATLING GUNS THEIR ABOLITIONIST PREDECESSORS INSTALLED AS A PRECAUTION AGAINST THE DRAFT RIOTS OF 1863
On that occasion New-York Times Editor Raymond put himself on the firing line by deploying a brace of the guns in the newsroom window and the front entrance, " commanding Park Row to the north," to deter the gangs of New York.
When Raymond died in 1867, the paper went to press "in full mourning" with a front page edged in black , celebrating how the Second Amendment once insured the defense of the First, but the paper has long since fallen silent in defense of both.
