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<div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/11/yesmen-still-on.html">http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/11/yesmen-still-on.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">12.11.2008 Updated, 11:20 a.m. | Sorry, folks, the paper isn’t free. And the Iraq war isn’t over, at least not yet.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">The spurious 14-page papers — with a headline “IRAQ WAR ENDS” — surprised commuters, many of whom took the free copies thinking they were legitimate.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">The hoax was accompanied by a Web site that mimics the look of The Times’s real Web site. A page of the spoof site contained links to dozens of progressive organizations, which were also listed in the print edition.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">(A headline in the fake business section declares: “Public Relations Industry Forecasts a Series of Massive Layoffs.” Uh, sure.)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">Gawker is reporting that the prank looks like the work of the liberal pranksters known as the Yes Men, who were the subject of a 2004 documentary film.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">Later on Wednesday morning, the Yes Men issued a statement claiming credit for the prank. The statement said, in part:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million papers were printed at six different presses and driven to prearranged pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass them out on the street.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Georgia">Catherine J. Mathis, a Times spokeswoman, said: “This is obviously a fake issue of The Times. We are in the process of finding out more about it.”</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">[...]</span></font></div></div></div></body></html>