Fake New York Times Includes Rancid Perfume Ad
Part of an anti-Israel leaflet heralding "All the News We Didn't Print."
Among those who received a fake mini-edition of The New York Times handed out today in Times Square was Reuters reporter Charles Levinson. Thanks to the journalist’s Twitter feed, there is documentation of one of the mock leaflet’s cleverest elements.
Page A1 ad on today's fake NYT is for Skunk Perfume, "Eau de I.D.F." pic.twitter.com/ih8J0h1GUw
— Charles Levinson (@levinsonc) February 2, 2016
It looks like an ad, but the copy below delivers anything but a branded punchline: ‘Since 2008, the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.)
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