Fake Newspaper Reports The Facts

[lame54]

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/21-0

'We're Screwed': Media Heist Blankets City With 'Special Edition' New York Post

Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World

NEW YORK - September 21 - Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a "special edition" New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most alarming thing about it: the news came from an official City report.

Distributed by over 2000 volunteers throughout New York City, the paper has been created by The Yes Men and a coalition of activists as a wake-up call to action on climate change. It appears one day before a UN summit where Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will push 100 world leaders to make serious commitments to reduce carbon emissions in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December. Ban has said that the world has "less than 10 years to halt (the) global rise in greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences for people and the planet," adding that Copenhagen is a "once-in-a-generation opportunity."

Although the 32-page New York Post is a fake, everything in it is 100% true, with all facts carefully checked by a team of editors and climate change experts.

"This could be, and should be, a real New York Post," said Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men. "Climate change is the biggest threat civilization has ever faced, and it should be in the headlines of every paper, every day until we solve the problem."...

CONTACT: The Yes Men
The Yes Men ([e-mail]), 347-254-7054, 646-220-4137

[dysfunctional press]

1. "Copenhagen is a "once-in-a-generation opportunity."...

yeah- just like kyoto.

we're fucked.

[Ian David]

2. See also: The Fake New York Post: Get Yours Now

The Fake New York Post: Get Yours Now

Last November, New Yorkers were greeted one morning with a Fake New York Times, produced by pinkos. Today the same people—The Yes Men—have dropped a Fake New York Post on the city. Let's look, then!

Top stories:

* "We're Screwed!" By climate change.
* "Pentagon top brass warn: Act now, or pay later with ‘lives'." Global warming kills.
* "Congress cops out on climate." Greenhouse gas is dangerous.

So while the Fake NYT was about ending the Iraq War, the Fake NYP is all about global warming. It's much too earnest to really capture the full comedic potential of the setup, but you have to at least admire the ambition.

Apparently, instead of flooding the East River with Survivaballs as we originally thought, this fake paper was The Yes Men's big stunt. It's keyed to promote The Age of Stupid, the soon-to-be-released environmental flick. Want to know where you can pick up your free copy of the Fake New York Post? The group sent out an email advisory last night to volunteers telling them to go to the following spots. You should still see liberals out there with the papers if you go now:



More:
http://gawker.com/5364046/the-fake-new-york-post-get-yours-now

[unpossibles]

3. "This could be, and should be, a real New York Post,"

Wait, I thought they said it was a fact-checked and accurate article? That would never appear in the Post!

[Hissyspit]

4. Website Cover:

[imdjh]

5. So which environmentalist paid for 16million tabloid pages to be printed for a stunt?

16 million pages, front and back, with ink, handed out for giggles, now finding their way into garbage cans, birdcages, storm sewers, the rivers, incinerators, and dumps.

How stewardish.

[lame54]

6. your right - they should do nothing and hope things work out for the best

[MrsCorleone]

7. For those who haven't seen Yes Men Fix The World, you simply must!

Film trailer and other info:

http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.

Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed.