Published Date:
13 November 2008
A GROUP of pranksters handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles yesterday with a front page story declaring "Iraq War Ends".
The elaborate 14-page edition, dated 4 July, 2009, is said to be the work of a group called the Yes Men, whose hoaxes include masquerading as World Trade Organisation officials announcing they were disbanding the body.
Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for the New York Times – logo "All the news that's fit to print" – said: "It is fake and we are looking into it."
"We've got to make sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do," Bertha Suttner, one of the fake newspaper's writers, said.
"After eight, or maybe 28 years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven."
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Last Updated:
12 November 2008 11:35 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
