Disinformation collaborators The Yes Men are at it again with another great media prank!

This morning, New Yorkers were offered free copies of the New York Times--which happened to be fake. One reader reported, "After taking it, I realized that the date was 7/4/09, and the headline read 'Iraq War Over'. It's full of fake articles, fake ads (even a Dr Zizmor 'Clean up the mess in the Iraq' ad), and a clever twist on the Times' slogan reading 'All the news we hope to print.'"

Here's an image of the real fake Times website and scans of the real fake Times above the fold and below the fold.

More here.

Subversion par excellence.

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<NY Times guy> "I don't understand... what... statement they are trying to make [...] We set the standard for the coverage of the Iraq War"
<spectator> "like Judith Miller?"
<NY Times guy> *bolts for the NY Times lobby*

NYTimes coverage of it here:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/pranksters-spoof-the-times/

In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Wednesday morning at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eighth Avenue,and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, among others.

The spurious 14-page papers — with a headline “IRAQ WAR ENDS” — surprised commuters, many of whom took the free copies thinking they were legitimate.

The paper is dated July 4, 2009, and imagines a liberal utopia of national health care, a rebuilt economy, progressive taxation, a national oil fund to study climate change, and other goals of progressive politics.

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