The Yes Men printed over one million fake copies of the New York Times with a headline proclaiming that the Iraq War was over.
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On November 12, 2008, a group of artists and activists unveiled a brilliant spoof of the New York Times, widely distributed to readers in New York and Los Angeles. This "July 4, 2009" version of the Times, which the real New York Times described as a "Grade-A caper" - boldly announced the end of the Iraq War, the nationalization of major oil conglomerates, the elimination of tuition at public universities, and the indictment of soon-to-be-former president Bush on charges of high treason.
The New York Times has released an anthology of the front pages since its first edition in 1851. Executive Editor Bill Keller tells NPR what his favorite pages are - and why he's attached to the printed paper.
Here's another reason for ailing newspaper and magazine publishers to wince: On average, the audience perusing unauthorized online copies of their articles is nearly 2.5 times larger than the readership on their own Web sites, according to a study being released Thursday.
There will be a protest outside the offices of the Los Angeles Times this morning at 10am Pacific. Details on this page: Picket LA Times.
The chief deputy county clerk for Brooklyn Supreme Court has been charged with facilitating a $1.4 Million mortgage scam in which the conspirators allegedly used fake identification to sell houses they did not own. According to Queens prosecutors, John D'Emic represented either a fake buyer or a fake seller in each of three fraudulent transactions, receiving $1,800 in each case.
