The fake New York Times

So there’s a rumor going around (that sounds like it is probably true) that the Yes Men were responsible for the fake New York Times from the future (the date on this issue is July 4, 2009).

If you haven’t heard, volunteers all over New York today were handing out issues of a newspaper seemingly identical to The New York Times. The cover story of this fake newspaper read “IRAQ WAR ENDS” and featured many stories that sounded too good to be true.

The tagline to this fake New York Times newspaper read “All The News We Hope To Print”.

I’ve read reports that by mid-day, copies of this fake newspaper were very hard to get, so when I saw a stack of them at New School just sitting there, I grabbed 5 copies and took them home! So now I have 5 copies of this fake New York Times that at least one former NYT reporter has said could become a collector’s item.

Everything about this newspaper seems genuine. Whoever put this newspaper together really labored over a real New York Times newspaper and took every identifiable cue from it to make this fake one seem as legit as possible to the naked eye.

New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.