NY Daily News Defends Graphic WDBJ Shooting Cover

The New York Daily News has faced some harsh criticism last night and today after it decided to put still images from the WDBJ shooter’s own social media video of yesterday morning’s murders on its cover, including one of the moment reporter Alison Parker was shot.

Reached for comment today by the New York Observer, a spokesperson for Daily News said that the paper was trying “to convey the true scale of what happened in Roanoke… at a time when it is so easy for the public to become inured to such senseless violence.”

Here was one Twitter user’s solution to the Daily News cover problem:

The victims of the #WDBJ shooting deserve better than the awful NY Daily News cover. Let's spread THIS image instead. pic.twitter.com/KrccVmmifz

— Angela Morabito (@Bear2theRight) August 27, 2015

And here’s the original cover for reference:

An early look at tomorrow’s front page… EXECUTED ON LIVE TV: http://t.co/8X8tEKXIhJ pic.twitter.com/UOsjmUdBJw

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 27, 2015

[Photo via screengrab]

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