by frog
The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonann, have done it again! Ahead of a UN summit on climate change, they distributed nearly one million spoof copies of the New York Post. Having come out brazenly as climate change deniers, New Yorkers were surprised to see the right wing rag emphatically change its tune.
The full on line version can be found here.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Tue, September 22nd, 2009
Tags: climate change, United Nations, yes men
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
The Post, like Fox news, exists to entertain and disinform.
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Great stuff from the Yes Men!
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Now we’re thinkin’!
Crikey! If something like that were to happen here…
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I have just visited the site and yes Drakula has made a contributing comment on the main topic ” We’re Screwed “, “Pam’s Pom Poms” and U2′S world travelling juggernaught.
U2 can also make a comment!!!
If we were to pull off a similar prank here which paper would it be? I have plenty of ideas on the subject “Super City gets Screwed”, “National Party bids to up it’s ETS to 90% at Copenhagan”, “A large icecap (the size of Greenland)has just fallen into the Antartic” Etc. etc.
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Seems to me that our press/media are being managed quite well by several groups at present – perhaps you could make it look like a government paper and lose it in the street. Someone from National Radio would probably find it.
Seriously though, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of investigative journalism going on (someone tell me I’m wrong) at present. I get the impression that a lot of the stories we are seeing develop are spin in some form or another and make good distractions.
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