On Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, Wonkette

Are You Better Off Today Than When The US Lost 3.3 Million Jobs In One Week?
The New York Times chart of job losses took up the WHOLE FRONT PAGE.

DOKTOR ZOOM
MAR 27, 2024

{snip}

So hey, how WERE we all doing four years ago? Thanks to a helpful little Bluesky account called “Four Years Ago Today,” we can check in from time to time to remind ourselves. The account started earlier this month, on March 6, when Trump acolyte Elise Stefanik urged Americans on the day after Super Tuesday to remember how wonderful everything was four years ago when things were much better and, oh no, they were not.

{snip}

Four years ago today, we were looking at screenshots of that insane New York Times front page (PDF link, no subscription needed) that used a very simple graphic design — a yellow bar graph line extending up the entire side of the front page — to underline how bad things were at the moment. Donald Trump had finally declared a national health emergency on March 13, and the following week, 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment in a single week as businesses closed and we tried to stay home as much as humanly possible.

{snip}

[Four Years Ago Today on Bluesky / NYT / NPR / Trump White House Archives / CNBC]

This has to have been a late edition, as the payroll employment report is released at 8:30 a.m. I'll look into this.

It's for real. The .jpeg has been altered a bit to remove the weather report in the upper right hand corner. Above the weather report are the words "Late Edition."

Here's a bigger version, and the original version at that. From the source:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/27/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

[central scrutinizer]

1. March, 2020 seemed to last a year

So much shit hit the fan.

[scipan]

2. Still shocking. Nt