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Awesome!
Though I have no real idea about the New York Post or the Yes Men – I note the Post guy walked into a News Ltd building.
I wonder how they paid for it?
It’s like some kind of alternative universe.
I’ve long been a fan of the Yes Men. They are a kind of Chaser team but even more edgy and artful. I’ve one of their videos — The Corporation. They are fabulously talented and clever. I doubt they make a good living doing what they are doing, but being part of the group would be tremendous fun.
The scary thing about the NY Post exec is that he actually carries on in real life the way the “bad guy” wrestlers carry on to incite the crowd in the WWE.
I love the exec pointing the cyclist and saying ‘environmentalit’, dripping with contempt.
The Yes Men have a few docos out. They’re very funny and a lot more interesting than the Chaser.
For the academically minded:
http://www.fibreculture.org/journal/issue6/issue6_sharpe.html
Fantastic! Never heard of the Yes Men before now, but they seem to be everything that the Chaser boys try to be. And they’re funny.
This is great. It’s intersting seeing the reaction of the public to the paper, most being mixed emotions. It’s sad, however, that it takes something like this for people to actually realise that climate change is real and happening now. Whats even sadder are the people who are in denial over the whole issue. I guess it’ll take more acts like this for people to wake up. This should be done more often with a number of issues, not just environmentalism.
Before this i’d never heard of the Yes Men. I’ll be sure to be follwing though, i found this really interesting!
oh yeah bring it on, what a great concept! imagine if they published that kind of stuff every day (my favourite line amongst many)
Rupert Murdoch bought The New York Post in 1993 and its current editor is Col Allan, former editor of Sydney’s Daily Terror. It was Allan who took Kevin Rudd to the notorious strip club where he got drunk.
But even before Murdoch bought it the Post went in for gross sensationalism. Its most famous headline ever was on April 15, 1983: HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR.
Oddly, Murdoch himself has said that he believes that anthropomorphic climate change is real, but many of his media properties deny it.
I do believe one of the Yes Men was interviewed on Insight in the lead up to the last election, on the episode about protest techniques.
Simply legends.
That show also had some fascinating interviews with other activists about why they do what they do – including the activists who ‘vandalised’ the Sydney Opera House with a No War slogan.
MikeM@10
I think you mean anthropogenic climate change. Anthropomorphic climate change would be climate change having human attributes (e.g. consciousness, empathy, goal-directedness) as opposed to climate change of human genesis (origin).
Well, Fran, anthropomorphic climate change’d get us into Lovelock territory, I reckon.
The fake New York Times by Yes Men is pretty cool, too.
http://www.nytimes-se.com/
I think the boys ventured to Australia a good while back for a prank. I cannot remember the details.
Fabulous Joe2@14 … I only read the headlines and I felt more at ease.
what a wonderful world …
If only it weren’t a hoax
‘A hoax… with the twist that everything in it is factual’.
THAT’S the explanation? Almost as bad as ‘fake but true’!
The hoax New York Post: an oxymoron, published by morons.
TimT@16
I’m reminded of Alan Moore’s words from the V for Vendetta comic series …