More than one million copies of a fake issue of The New York Times were handed out in different cities across the US, with a headline that says: “Iraq War Ends”. The 14-page paper was dated 4 July 2009, and featured variety of optimistic news about politics, health care, energy, and much more. Not only that, the spoof paper got a website that looks exactly like New York Times original website.
The Associated Press reported that the pranksters — who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times employees and Steven Lambert, an art professor — financed and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises.
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.”
Read more here, and check the spoof website here!
