Thanks for doing this, it is hot. We were happy to be included and to see many of our sister groups. Where did it come from??

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This is incredible! Great production values and distribution idea (I picked one up from a guy handing newspapers out on the street). You will get through to a lot of people this way. I’d love to help create the next edition.

LOVE IT. Real Satire. Well done people, well done. Especially with pointing out that tom friedman has no business holding a pen.

This is fabulous. I just brought it into my stuffy financial workplace and even here, everyone has remarked on how clever it is. Job well done. Thanks for the laugh on this Wednesday morning. Here’s to hoping…

This is brilliant, I’m in NC so no hard copy but I’ll be linking to you.

Very well done! You guys had me for a second. I just hope now that more people will want to make your “news” a reality.

[...] 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 [...]

Well done! Almost as good as Judith Miller’s fiction, but then again this didn’t help lead to years of war and millions of refugees. Satirizing the Times is great, but not so easy. I mean, how do you make fun of a newspaper where Bill Kristol gets hired AFTER years as a professional war monger and liar, where Miller passed on Bush/Cheney/Curveball lies as news, and that calls Hugo Chavez a “tyrant” for winning elections, while giving Bloomberg (Wall St.) a free pass to buy the mayor’s office?

[...] zelfs begeleid door een website die logischerwijs op die van de krant zelf leek. Daar was ook een link te vinden naar tientallen organisaties die aan de grap hadden [...]

I am a businessman who for many years has been a victim of psychopolitics, an invention of the Soviet NKVD head Beria under Stalin. I have spent much time in psychiatric prisons here in the United States for the crime of learning to hear the output of Programma Steganophony from the Moscow Technilogical Institute. I hear voices that most people don’t hear. Criminal psychiatrists call these perceptions hallucinations. I am label a chronic paranoid schizophenic, a charge they cannot prove. The convinced the United States Department of Justice and the intelligence community of the “truth” of the schizophrenia allegation and a large number of anti-American forces are after your tails as well as mine. I was a prime contractor for The New York Times Company and succesfully provided them with much needed assistance. This newspaper is so extremely leftist that I could puke. One article, however, caught my attention: the one about Mr. Arar. As the owner of Ar Ar Research, I have investigated railroads and Ayn Rand, and have been subjected to electronic anti-personel weaponry as a result. I have found a stupid game being played where everone obeys everyone else. I find your bar code 92015, extremely suspiciopus, as it is very similar to 90125, the title of a 1983 album by the alternative rock group YES. This title is a simple encryption of IJABE, I Jon Anderson BE; the little creep named the group after his initials, and they filled 90125 with dangerous steganophony or “subliminals.” Who the hell are you people?

Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you.

Congratulations on the news we want to hear….
In the UK we’ll have a different solution to the banking crisis- a law to make it compulsory to move house every 6 months… good for the economy eh?

This is about as liberal as the actual New York Times.

An expert hoax that will go down in history. Extremely well done. Congratulations!

Wow, taking away economic freedom is a wonderful idea! Stealing from productive members of society is so underrated! It worked really well for the Soviets, right?

The passage of this kind of tripe will make the Great Depression look like a minor downturn.

Congratulations. That was extremly well done.

DON’T FORGET ARMS CONTROL!
Sorry for the all-caps, but arms control is often lost in these wish lists. It’s a global issue crying out for real leadership. I’m not an employee of these groups, just a fan.
See
http://www.controlarms.org/en
http://www.iansa.org/
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/

(Congrats on the site!)

Well done!
Congratulations from France.

Well done.

Congratulations from Germany. Similar projects will follow.

Thank you so much!

Incredible. Who’s next ?

Great idea! Thank you, America, for keeping the revolutionary spirits and faith in the ideals.

GREAT!
Thank you.

Magical you!
Every year I view The Yes men film with my new students. I am professor at University of Sevilla (Spain, European Union). I teach my journalism students International Relations. I try to show them alternate forms of expression and constructive ways of critizing how power is exercised at the international level. This is a new piece of work towards a new world where citizens will be more concerned with their chances to change the world they live in. Thank you.

What an eye opener! Thanks

[...] Fineprint wird Flagge bekannt und Weiterführendes vermittelt. Unter Corrections wird einiges [...]

[...] y trouve notamment une page intitulée The Fine Print, sur laquelle les auteurs qui ont collaboré au projet expliquent qu’il est désormais [...]

This is so cool! You guys did a great job.

T H A N K Y O U ! ! !

GREAT!!!

Hey Guys!
Great!!! I wished I could have been team member doing this.

We are critizising Austrian Media for non-controversial contents. Contents that are all the same in all newspapers. We would like to post this story on our Website http://www.nettoinhalt.at and would like to ask you some questions:
- Why? How did you develop the idea to do this paper?
- How? Who did support you? How did you rase the money fot it?
- How much money was needed?

It would be very helpful to get the answer by e-Mail to franz.miklautz@wuapaa.com

Really cool!

This is one of the best pieces of activism I’ve ever seen. You are wonderful. Thank you so much. Love Josie (UK)

Great recommendation of websites. One more for the collection> if you want to help fight corruption, see Transparency International http://www.transparency.org

I hope the White House endorses this, or better yet creates their own paper that will attest to the changes that we all hope are coming to our country and to the world. Thanks for such inspiring goals to help us create a vision for a better world to live in.

[...] בשם המותג והלוגו. ובאתר המפוברק, כשמחפשים טוב, מגיעים לדף הקרדיטים המספר על הרעיון מאחורי הפעלול, ומאיץ בקוראים להצטרף [...]

I don’t want to be a “science experiment” anymore! i.e.; watched on camera, listening on my phone. I don’t have anything to hide, but my life doesn’t need to be broadcast for all of government to see or hear! They need to be meddling in the corrupt ways of corporations, and not worried about what plain little ‘ol me is looking at on the internet!!

I teach critical studies in the visual arts. Your NYT issue has been examined as a superb example of political propaganda (parody as corrective) in the service of just ideals fostered by the founding of our democratic Republic (now gone horribly awry). Congratulations on a remarkable vision expertly realized.

The spirit of the democracy in the media alternative.If the US loocking for real democracy need a better media, a better society and a better
people to work for some of this goals.

El espíritu de la democracia en los medios alternativos.Si EU, busca una democracia real, necesita mejores medios, una mejor sociedad y un mejor pueblo que trabaje por estas metas.

Uber Bravo - wickedly clever + completely accurate

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What about if I want to help free Palestine? Any suggestions??

I’m from Cuba and I can just say WOW. I have collaborated previously to the building of similar hoaxes but this is simply too well done. Congratulations and know that this very moment this particularly special Times edition is out there reaching every corner of the world.
I would be interested, and I’m sure many others would, in knowing what could be the continuity of this project. Could the webpage be mantained? Thanks

[...] Y aquí, un poco más de quiénes están detrás de todo [...]

Bravo to the “True Cost” tax plan. There ahould have been an article about the Bush Presidential Liebrary too!

Who are you fighting?

An interesting approach: Misinformation.
Fighting the government at their own game. Good to see.

Action in it’s most powerful forms… thank you for making the news and our views a reality. And an excellent job helping us onliners to seek out the very groups that are making progressive change a reality. Maybe every six months it wouldn’t hurt to be reminded, do it again, please!

lol @ the exxon banner

Holy ****. This is very, very impressive. Congratulations.

To all the Holistic Health, Wellness providers, Stress Relievers and Green Farmers, WE LOVE YOU TOO!!! 1 World, 1 Planet, 1 People!

What an imaginative idea! Are you accepting new articles?: PEACE BREAKS OUT IN HOLYLAND - ISRAEL ACCEPTS INTERNATIONAL BORDER - NEW CONSTITUTION IS FRAMED - U.N. RESOLUTIONS AND GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACCEPTED - SECURITY WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN!

Thank you for a great job of “reporting” how wonderful this country (and the world) could be!–It may give hope and thereby encourage many people to participate actively in working for the realization of the conditions you have “reported”. Btw, I can only get your product by going thro DemocracyNow’s Headlines. Can you make the paper available directly thro my asking for it in “Research”? Please respond. Bzalel ben Aryeh

thank you for this wonderfully funny and intelligent intervention. what a serious commitment to high ideals it takes to create something like this. you have made a lot of people happy, and you have held up satire as an exemplary way to raise public morale - a great feat. thank you for beautifully hosing the criminal and insufferable war profiteers. thank you for hosing exxon and GM and poking american apparel in the ribs. hopefully they’ll all prove to be ticklish. (if not - how sad).

brilliant and brilliant a hundred times over! i tip my hat.

I am one of the world’s most cynical guys, but reading some of these stories made me teary-eyed. How does one get thehard copy up here in VT?

Thank you for this effort. Great campaign. If I can be of help in DC, let me know.

You have my admiration, respect, HUGE smile, ‘chapeau’, HIGH five, … all of it. Very, VERY well done. Keep going, quite a few Belgian people keep watching =:-]

Thanks a lot y’all!
My first idea was that my hometown in former east germany has deserved such a hoax, too.
But I had to see that there is no german newspaper which deserves to be faked that way
Welllll done! Thanks a lot!

Terence Fom London

Thank you for liftng my/our spirts.

I hope you popped off to the future in a time machine to get this paper.

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

“Strategic planning is worthless — unless there is first a strategic vision.”

This is the NY Times news that I want to read! Seeing these positive articles and politically correct ads in this familiar conservative format gives us hope that these ideals can become the new reality. Great job — fabulously done!

At first I thought, “What a great idea. This could really show people what could be possible in the future IF WE WEREN’T ON OUR GUARD. I then proceeded to “The Fine Print” and realized that the people behind this publication WANT this type of world. MAXIMUM WAGE? NATIONAL HEALTH CARE? Do you actually believe for one second that socialism works? The types of deranged lunatics who produce this garbage under the hopes that it could one day be true are strikingly similar to the “progressives” that helped form the Soviet Union. Just look at Venezuela, Chavez thinks he’s got it right. Take a closer look, and you’ll find they can’t keep the lights on. Ask Europeans and Canadians how they like their government sponsored health care where they can wait for treatment we can receive instantly here. Please do yourself a favor and learn something from history. BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE ANSWER.

I am only disappointed that I was unable to get the print version - Perhaps this will be a wake-up call for so many misguided Americans who still believe that the NRA and Republican party give a damn about THEM.

You missed a few topics:

“With Art Market Booming, ‘Starving Artists’ Now Quaint Anachromism”
“Same-sex Marriage Ruled Constitutionalin all 50 States”
“Condolezza Rice Admits Affair with Laura Bush”
“Dow Surges Past 15,000″
“What Unemployment?”
“FDA approves weight-loss drug with no side-effects”

This has made my day! What a relief! Even as a fake, it shows what many people really think about where we have all been led.
Wish I could get it in print!

Righteous!!

From your fingers to God’s inbox!!!
Fantabulous piece of work!!!

[...] absolutely fawn over the “Workers Paradise” they hope to create under the incoming Obama/Biden [...]

Great work!

Thank you. Thank you. What a wonderful thing to get people talking and thinking and discussing and working (I hope) and imagining a future where these things are possible. The internet (thank you Al) made this viral message possible and for such GOOD! Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for doing this. I worry that this optimism will be short lived. I remember when Clinton was elected, we imagined that military bases could be retrofit for profitable peacetime enterprises. That unfortunately did not come to pass. This time, hopefully, Americans and global brethren will continue to support and energize the right movements. I would recommend http://www.november5.org and http://www.repoweramerica.org to all readers and activists. And keep artists alive! Why don’t we have more socialized help for artists in this country as they do in Europe?
Thank you Times, Kathleen in Tucson (native NYer).

This is great. Thank you.

I first saw this and thought “Woah, did it happen all at once?” And then my brain caught up with me.

There are some things I like. Withdrawal from Iraq, the UN stepping in (they ostensibly don’t have ulterior motives), Bush admitting all he’s done…

But then some stuff might go a little far. Free public universities? Only Sweden has that for its citizens. Even here in Switzerland it’s just cheap, not free.

It’s an idealistic, utopian picture that the NYT is painting, of which half is impossible, not to mention an unrealistic timeframe between now and the apparent printing date.

This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for it, but we should bear in mind that progressive thinking requires hard facts and hard decisions, much like exercise, it will need short term pain for long term gain. We’ll have to stay focused on that long term goal, even after the optimism of these months, even years, are gone.

So keep up the optimistic view NYT, because someone has to dream.

Yes, it is Utopian but what’s wrong with that? We’ve spent the last 8 years without hope and now we have a chance to change the world for the better for our children and grandchildren. Thank you for all the wonderful links. But this will not happen without work and pressure from us all. Keep up the good work.

Excellent effort, but why did you leave out the core oppression in the Middle East — Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?

I hope next time you’ll expose the Times’ cover-up on Israeli injustice and violence against Palestinians, instead of joining it… I hope you’ll expose the neocon’s connections to the push for war in Iraq and Iran… I hope you’ll include our organization — If Americans Knew — in groups for people to join.

People who want to learn the facts on this should go to IfAmericansKnew dot org.

Thank you for this. Truly, if each us can envision peace and speak the end of turbulence - just because we said so - Oh Happy Day. By the way, here’s the message at the end of my e-mails:

Rosa sat so Martin could walk
Martin walked, so Obama can run
Obama ran, so our children can fly.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Monterey, CA

Good dreams.
Hope will happened as written.

This is a disgrace to all that is America. May you all burn in hell.

Bravo!
As the Buddha taught, “Everything is created by mind alone.”
Imagine

Thank you for articulating my dream of a better world. Thank you for giving me a goal to work towards.

Some articles actually made me cry a little bit. I’ve lived here in the US for about 8 years now, and it has been very hard for many international students just to live. From the first day that I got discriminated just because of the color of my skin, I waited for this moment, this change, this election. My dream now has come true, and let me wish the others to come true. Thank you for this paper. Thank you from an used-to-be-insignificant Japanese international student. I’d love to help for the future print anyway I can.

Eye of Providence on the Great Seal of USA appeared. Please log on to http://www.makudam.net for details

What a great idea to make people thinking and realazing! What great idea to drive people to Charity web sites! I have to say that this is a wonderful success and an amazing idea! I just hope every single thing will become true! Dreaming helps!

Wow, awesome!!! Welcome back, creative, free-spirited, open, democratic, visionary and fun America! We missed you!!

A vision of the future, of what could be…it made me weep. For the first time in my life I can sense that this future could easily be MY future. Thank you.
Now I know what hope really is.

This site proves that the left are truly dead-set on “Communizing” the country. If these wackos would read the constitution, they would realize that the larger they make the government, the smaller our freedoms become. I’m not a republican, and disagree with a large number of the current administration’s policies. But I cherish my freedoms, including the freedom to fail.

This is so great. I love the Yes Men. This reminds of me of a radio show I did in 2004. I needed to be refreshed … so, I just started inventing things, whether they had happened or not. I talked of bike paths with sculpted gardens … ending all torture … releasing marijuana prisoners … diverting war funds to refugee relief … if felt so good … just like this paper … I hope our thinking makes it so …

the radio show - Positive Transformation:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/03/26/transform.laura.eyetunes.mp3

i came across the site and spent 20 minutes staring at everything wishing it could be real

Amazing! Just a thought - could have used some arts coverage. like . . . suddenly the American people and government realize that the arts are a necessary and important part of our cultural fabric and start (shock!) funding artists at living wages. Just a thought.

I like to say thank you for your very good newspaper with a word from Maitreya:”The idea of politicians as masters of the universe is coming to an end. Now politicians are realizing it is the will of the people which is important for the happiness and safety of society.”

There is not a coffee table slanted enough to keep this from sliding off.
Stock values fall, too.
Newspapers become catalogs of old pictures.
Advertisers are smart shoppers.
Birds in cages become anal-retentive with that lining the bottom….

congratulations on carrying the idea off on such a scale -

I a delighted! We so need to express the vision of civilized people everywhere!
To those who think regulating against abuse is socialism, I suggest they compare the yearly crime statistics to the rates of homelessness, unemployment, and poverty.
Stable societies require clean air, clean water, healthy food, shelter, education, and medical care for every member. A prviledged few suggesting, “Eat cake” to massses of starving people has dire consequences for all.

If you dream of living in a communist “utopia” that will never come to fruition, support and join those organizations.

LOL @ the left wing whackos.

If you want to say thank you to the congressmen whos dicks you are sucking be my guest, I’d rather say “fuck you” and fight for something better…

Thanks, you are true democrats, you have helped initiate many conversations. Talk equals progress.

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We need to make a better world, that new world is possible but our enemies are strong and vicious. They are like commentator 94, enemies of the people. Fascism is still strong world wide and especially strong in the USA. We still might need a violent revolution in this country.This coming depression might lead to a world war. We must prepare!!!

This has been a great read and seems to have provoked quite a reaction in the comments. Better to be a communist than a fascist.

Great Issue and concept. How about doing a daily or weekly online version? Or did I miss that discussion somewhere else in the commentary or critique in this edition?

Thanks for a look at what the left-wing utopia will look like. What a disastrous, communist hellhole.

What a wonderful idea to produce “reportage” of what could be!! I’m in India, and stumbled upon this website by way of an Australian blog. Looks like the whole world is looking forward to a renewed and better America. All best wishes!!

Double thumbs up!!

Very cool initiative, I hope to see the news printed here turn to reality. All the very best from Germany.

Congratulations! Great idea and great implementation. I wish there were more responsible for positive thinking zones in our brains :0)Very good example :0)) Wishing you all the best from Ukraine! Victoria

Let’s make it reality!

Your imagined world is the one I would love my child to grow up in. Thank you.

PS. Thanks for making your statement here in Calgary.

Unfortunately, as much as it is comforting for people to read a full front page of uplifting/encouraging stories about the war ending, etc. because these are about the future… too bad half of these will never happen and everything will still be a pile of shit. Nothing will happen as portrayed here.

This site lives in a dream world that will never happen. Your optimism will be your demise.

Thanks for this awesome news! Many of us have a vision for peace and well-being, caring for others and ahppiness. It’s great to share it with you. Thanks for all the work you are doing to bring another possibility to the attention of your readers.
And for you reading this, go to http://www.avatarepc.com and download the podcast “Messages of Hope” to see it’s starting to become a reality. We can do it!

yeahhh bros yes men alright, the best hoax ever. a slap on the face of s.u.v. owners and other monsters that inhabit the so called liberal media. thomas friedman column is a hell of a hoax. bravo, muchachos.
all those who consider this hoax as a futuristic unreal utopic and optimistic one are damn right, not like our present real dystopic and pessimist world. how much a small portion of the human race can be so narrow minded so orwellian so let’s chill out guys. hoaxes are healthy, sexy and creative. let’s open the doors of perception and let’s change once and for all the unchangeable. amen.

thanks to all involved! it’s time to turn these published dreams into reality.

here is an audio piece i did about the day of distribution last week:

and some photos.

I’ve used the Yes Men film in my “Power & Control in an Information Society” class (I’m a librarian), and will happily include this edition of the newspaper in my final exam this autumn.
Thank you!

Great work comrades. Together we can overthrow this experiment that was a representative democratic republican capitalist state and transform it into a people’s progressive workers soviet socialist republic! Expel the freedom of dissent, squash talk radio, suppress violently anyone who threatens the proletarian regime! Erase the 2nd amendment! Erase the 1st amendment in as far as orthodox Christianity and freedom of press for conservatives/independents is concerned!

The day the America that is shown in this newspaper comes to pass, will be the day the last nail is drove into the coffin holding the shriveled corpse that was the United States.

This paper is amazing! Thank you all for your sacrifices and investment in this project-

h and m

The America you are representing is far from utopia. I cringed as a read headline after headline, imagining the horror that I will feel if each of these things comes to pass. Yes, the end of the Iraq war would be a great thing, but each subsequent heading made me more and more depressed. If you want a government controlled socialist country with no innovation, personal freedom or motivation for people to be productive and creative, by all means continue on this path. I can only hope I will have found a more reasonable place to call home by the time all of your headlines come true.

As a British Army officer who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and been horrified by the egregious abuses and incompetence of the Cheney/Bush administration, it is truly gratifying to see the America which I would like to believe in again hopefully resurgent. This was a terrific, inspiring, newspaper, and I wish you all the luck in the world in making these headlines a reality. Thank you for raising our spirits! Cheers!

Oh, look. A complete list of all the stupidest organizations in America. Science not being the strong point of a single group listed, I’m sure you will forgive me if I doubt your time machine satire will come anywhere close to Truth.

However, the list of organizations here will most assuredly provide me with a guide on who to oppose and who never to listen to if I want the Truth in Life.

Have a nice day, idiots.

Now let’s see if you allow contrary comments, just like the Times doesn’t, or not?

Subsunk

Imagine that. Not.

Subsunk

I am just flabbergasted that this is not satire. As I read the articles and poked around, I had a good laugh at what I assumed was a conservative parody of the liberal mind. And then, it turned out that you idiots actually hope for such a horrible, tyrannical world.

Better to be a communist than a fascist? A communist IS a fascist, as the wishful thinking of these useful idiots shows anyone willing to see.

And if you think love and happiness would preside over such destabilizing changes such as these, shoot yourself now because it will save you the pain and shock of being lined up against the wall and shot along with all the other useful idiots when your disastrous policies destroy the country and make a socialist strongman necessary. He will seize power, kill or imprison all the idiots who helped him up, and then systematically persecute us and eliminate all freedom– of movement, of expression, of religion, of thought itself.

You morons. You sad, pathetic, horribly misguided idiots. Only behind the barbed wire of the gulag will you see how stupid you have been.

[...] and a corrections page. The online edition is set up at http://www.nytimes-se.com. The “Fine Print” section on the far left menu describes the mission and purpose of this ambitious, creative [...]

Very cute, but first, why the exploitation of the semi-nude female body in your fake American Apparel ad? Just trying to keep us in our place for the foreseeable future? And second, if you really think “everyone can now see that the “free market” has nothing to do with freedom”, just read your own comment sections, for example, on the single payer article.