by Allison Fine on 13 Nov 2008
There was much aflutter in New York City yesterday when a group of volunteer activists released and distributed a fake copy of The New York Times with a banner headline announcing the end of the Iraq War. Upon further examination, readers saw that the paper was postdated July 4, 2009.
I spoke this morning to two organizers of the effort, Beka Economopoulos and Andy Bichlbaum, about how this massive effort (it took over a year to organize and hundreds of volunteers to pull off) was organized and successfully managed. (And it wasn't free.)
The effort was organized similarly to other ne
