Faked NYT

A faked New York Times was distributed yesterday. The fourteen page spoof was dated July 4, 2009 and announced, among other things, that the Iraq War is over.

The paper is largely being credited to The Yes Men, but according to the Associated Press (by way of NY Times's coverage of the event), it was a collaboration that extended beyond the performance artist duo:

The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the pranksters — who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times employees and Steven Lambert, an art professor -- financed the paper with small online contributions and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises.