aka the Fake New York Times, Spoof New York Times, The New York Times Hoax, Iraq War Ends, Because We Want It, The End of the War of the Worlds, The Massive Power Shifting Exercise, The Good News, etc.
A collaboration with The Yes Men along with 30 writers, 50 advisors, around 1000 volunteer distributors, CODEPINK, May First/People Link, Evil Twin, Improv Everywhere and Not An Alternative.
See the The New York Times Special Edition website.
Video
New York Times Special Edition Video News Release – Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.
B-roll of fake New York Times Distribution, November 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.
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- Italian coverage of NY Times Special Edition
Online
Forbes.com, “Iraq War Ends (On Paper); Why real newspapers should take a lesson from a fake one.”
Phawker Interview: Q&A: Meet The Man Who Punked The NY Times
NY Times City Room blog: Liberal Pranksters Hand Out Times Spoof
Television
CNN
MSNBC
Local and National News across the US
(There’s lots more media attached to this which I plan on adding someday.)
The People
Creative and Logistical Collaborators
STEVE LAMBERT
ANDY BICHLBAUM
DANIEL S DUNNAM
KELLI ANDERSON
GREGG OSOFSKY
JEREMY PIKSER
JACQUELINE STEVENS
HEATHER ROGERS
LARRY BOGAD
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON
SCOTT BEIBIN
LIZ COLE
ELIOT KATZ
CRISTIAN FLEMING
STEVE KURTZ
JOE DELAPPE
TREVOR PAGLEN
STEPHEN DUNCOMBE
DALTON CONLEY
PACKARD JENNINGS
JAMIE McCLELLAND
TOM FOSTER
NINA FELSHIN
ISABEL MACDONALD
BILL MARTIN
Logistical and Creative Collaborators
BROOKE LEHMANN
BEKA ECONOMOPOULOS
JASON JONES
MEDEA BENJAMIN
JODIE EVANS
JEAN STEVENS
DANA BALICKI
LAURIE ARBEITER
RANDY OSTROW
ETIENNE NOREAU-HEBERT
CHARLIE TODD
ANDREW BOYD
GREG PODUNOVICH
GRACE SALEM
AMANDA McDONALD-CROWLEY
JEFF CROUSE
ZENA BARAKAT
FRANCES FOX PIVEN
RICHIE SUMMERS
PRANAV BEHARI
CYNTHIA YARDLEY
PATRICK CAREY
NICK FLYNN
LILI TAYLOR
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
FRANCO MATTES
EVA MATTES
LESLIE CAGAN
NOAM GONICK
Institutional Collaborators
EYEBEAM
THE ANTI-ADVERTISING AGENCY
CODEPINK
MAY FIRST/PEOPLE LINK
IMPROV EVERYWHERE
EVIL TWIN BOOKING
NOT AN ALTERNATIVE
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
CULTURES OF RESISTANCE
EXPEDI PRINTING
Transport Logisticians
KALIM ARMSTRONG
JAMES BACHHUBER
PAUL NOTZOLD
RICHARD LAMANNA
LISA NOLA
MARY JEYS
LIZ FILARDI
JAMES POWDERLY
RANDY OSTROW
HILARY GOLDSTEIN
JON COHRS
JASON EPPINK
Server Survival Team
JAMIE McCLELLAND
ETIENNE NOREAU-HEBERT
ALFREDO LOPEZ
JAMIE WILKINSON
GREGG OSOFSKY
Video News Release Team
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON
ARTUR KUMMER
LILKA HARA
LILI TAYLOR
NICK FLYNN
RANDY OSTROW
NINA FELSHIN
MADELINE NELSON
BILL MARTIN
WOLFGANG STAEHLE
Camera
ELIZABETH PRESS
MARK READ
ROCKETBOOM
ELIZABETH PRESS
SERGEI KRASIKAU
STEVE LAMBERT
RAUL BARCELONA
DANIEL DUNNAM
And many others
Photographers
CONWAY LIAO
JON COHRS
ELSPETH ROUNDTREE
And many others
Additional Editors
JOE BONACCI
ERIC BROWN
Sound
JOHN BUCHER
