Liberal Pranksters Hand Out Times Spoof

New York Times by Sewell Chan | Nov. 13, 2008 (News Report)

In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Wednesday morning at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eighth Avenue, and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, among others.

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by Michael Bugeja - Nov. 13, 2008

Succinct online journalism here describes the spoof edition of the New York Times, and the reporter provides links for those interested in the hoax topic.

See the excellent hoax story follow-up by Richard Pérez Peña in the New York Times, featured in NewsTrust.

The hoax was accompanied by a Web site that mimics the look of The Times’s real Web site. A page of the spoof site contained links to dozens of progressive organizations, which were also listed in the print edition.

This excerpt features three links, an example of good use of the online platform.

Michael posted this story.