New York Times special edition
“Iraq War Ends,” announced the headline of yesterday’s New York Times, with the war’s key protagonist, George W Bush, taking the unusual step of indicting himself for high treason. “It’s like a dream,” said one reader on the streets of Manhattan.
Probably because it was. If the news was too good to be true, a closer look at the date on the front page would certainly have given the game away – July 4 2009. This was the NYT Special Edition. Six months of planning went into the release, and a host of writers were involved of which some, it has been reported, work for the official NYT.
And so 1.2 million spoof papers were distributed for free across the states. Why? The president elect of course. As one of the paper’s writers, going by the name of Bertha Suttner put it, “we've got to make sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do. After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven.”
With Bush on the way out, and a new man ready to take his place these are exciting times. The news might be dream-like, but Americans, I’ve heard, have a good record with dreams.
Subscribe to HUCK for six issues
Only £20 (UK) / £43 (EU) / £58 (Rest of the World).
New York Times special edition (text) by Olly Zanetti is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Add Your Comment...
Please note: Your comment may be held in moderation for approval by an administrator to prevent spamming. This usually doesn't take long, please be patient.