13 Climate Protesters Arrested At New York Times Printing Press: Cops

QUEENS, NY — Thirteen people were arrested outside the New York Times' printing press in the early hours of Earth Day while protesting the newspaper's coverage of climate change, police and protesters said.

A crowd of protesters gathered outside 1 New York Times Plaza — a center that prints and distributes the Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post — shortly after midnight, according to an NYPD spokesperson.

Protesters with blockades, a boat and a banner that read "we're in a climate f---ing emergency" staked out the driveway for more about seven hours, according to a report and activists' photos .

All told, 13 people were arrested and 17 received various summons, the spokesperson said.

More than 100,000 newspapers from The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal weren't delivered Friday, the New York Post reported, noting that it wasn't clear how the Times was impacted.

Organizers from Extinct Rebellion NYC, a civil disobedience climate change group, said they hoped to disrupt the distribution of daily publications in response to their insufficient coverage of the climate crisis.

"Mass media corporations like News Corp, The New York Times Company, and Gannet are failing to cover the climate emergency with the frequency it deserves," organizers wrote.

"By failing to cover the climate emergency with the depth and frequency it warrants, the media is enabling the government's gaslighting of the public—making it easy for the government to act like the climate and ecological crisis is years away, ignore scientists' urgent calls to action, and refuse to take the steps we need to start transforming our systems from finite and fragile to strong and resilient."

In response to the protest, the Times reportedly defended its coverage of climate change, and criticized protesters for disrupting business operations.

"Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time and there is no national news organization that devotes more time, staff or resources to producing deeply reported coverage to help readers understand these issues than The New York Times," the company said in a statement.

"While we fully support this group's right to express their point of view, even when we disagree with it as it relates to our coverage, disrupting our business operations and depriving people of critical information is not acceptable."