the spoof financial times

on friday march 27th, thousands of copies of a spoof version of the financial times were
distributed by climate change campaigners, as the UK prime minister, gordon brown,
prepares to host next week's G20 summit in london.
the fake edition of the paper, which had 12 pages, was set in 2020 and largely focused
on issues about capitalism, human rights and the environment. they also set up a website
in the style of FT.  the project cost less than £10,000 and was partly funded by internet
donations and handed out by volunteers.



the paper was largely written by two people -
in an editorial, raoul djukanovic, called for journalists to take a more responsible
approach to reporting. 'journalists frame public debate, and the city frames public policy,'
he said, 'if they reframed their thinking, they could help build a different world instead
of conning us with lifestyle porn and bubbles.' djukanovic, who described himself
as a former journalist who used to work in belgrade, wrote the content
with an unnamed colleague.



'it is a mix of jokes and arguments, of varying quality, but the production is superb.
they have reproduced the look of the FT very impressively', one of the financial times
editors, ed crooks, said,' the best bit: the leader column, which writes -frankly,
the financial times is more honest than most, both about its bias and the state of the world.
investors tend to want their news less filtered, even if they still like it framed to serve
their interests. - perhaps we should use that in our advertising.'



check the not stupid website launching tomorrow, april, 1st. the april fool's day.


'you can't put all your energy in one barrel, but we can' ad





last year protesters handed out a similar send-up of the new york times,
which carried a story on the front page claiming the war in iraq was over.