A coalition of liberal advocacy groups and volunteers distributed copies of a satirical July 4, 2009, edition of The New York Times to New York City commuters on November 12. The issue depicts a President Barack Obama’s administration having “enacted” legislation that regulated government agencies’ dealings with PR agencies.

The groups, including Yes Men, Anti-Advertising Agency, United for Peace and Justice, and Improv Everywhere, distributed more than one million copies of the issue, bolstering it with an Internet version also mimicking the Times‘ Web site, according to a writer for the issue using the pen-name Wilfred Sassoon. You can read more about this here.

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