NEW YORK– The New York Times, in the time since it began printing in 1851, has won 104 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization. Its website is one of the most popular American newspaper websites as of December, 2008, according to one trustworthy statistics provider (Wikipedia). Despite this, newspaper readership has fallen to the lowest level since the 1980’s.
Fearing for the newspaper’s popularity, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has begun hiring a new breed of reporters.
“This is an exciting new development in the thrilling story of the New York Times,” editor Bill Keller told ICTPT reporters. “In order to draw in younger readers, we’ve begun hiring science fiction and fantasy writers from around America to tell the fantastic and scientifically fictional story of the news.”
The first story provided by these new reporters tells of the Obama administration’s “Shadow War” against the forces of evil and his efforts to bring balance to the world. The picture associated with the article was originally produced when the writers erroneously assumed that they were expected to make a feature film version of the article and needed something for a poster.
“I started out working on dubbing anime for 4Kids Entertainment,” Scott Shane told reporters. He worked for the television production company for four years before joining the New York Times. “They always had us doing shadow this, shadow that, evil shadows, shadows of whatever, so I figure, throw some shadows in it and kids will love it.”
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