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Fake NY Times Site Declares End of Iraq War

by Terrence O'Brien on November 14, 2008 at 11:14 AM

Fake NY Times Declares End of Iraq War

Those political pranksters, The Yes Men, are at it again in a stunt that, regardless of your ideology, you must admit is impressive. The "operation," six months in the planning, involved six printing presses and thousands of volunteers across the nation who handed out 1.2 million copies of a 14-page mock issue of the New York Times.

Commuters exiting trains in New York and in other cities were confused, and some fooled, when they were handed a free copy of the New York Times with a headline proclaiming the end of the Iraq war. For those who weren't lucky enough to get their hands on a paper copy, you can still check out the July 4th, 2009 dated issue online at www.NYTimes-se.com. The site is an almost perfect replication of the NY Times Web site, and it's filled with dozens of articles imagining a future liberal utopia (or nightmare, depending on your perspective).

Though the stunt is a little reminiscent of hippie-era freak out the establishment antics (which, in retrospect, we're sure many see as the acting out of juvenile idealists), we're still taken aback by the scale and attention to detail. [From: Boing Boing, Wired, and Fake NY Times]

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