November 12, 2008
Fake NYTimes Prank - In a move that writes its own snarky conservative blog posts, situationalist prankster group The Yes Men printed and distributed thousands of fake issues of the New York Times across NYC today. I'm sure copies must be even harder to find than the real 11/5 issue (compare), so check out their pixel-perfect spoof website for the full text. (Or try to, as it's currently slashdotted from here to 404.) And don't gloss past the sidebar: the fake ads are the best part, natch.
Apart from the ads, Friedman's letter of resignation is particularly good.
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Good grief -- somehow the scale of this thing passed me by. Not 'thousands' but purportedly 1.2 MILLION copies? That's larger by about 100k than the daily paid circulation of the NYTimes itself!
I don't believe the figure, but both Editor&Publisher and the NYTimes cite it uncritically. Strange, by the way: I think "In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million papers were printed..." is more likely to sneak by than "In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, one million papers were printed....".
posted by mrflip at 03:54PM CST on November 12