Londoners receive Financial Times spoof

LONDON, March 27 (UPI) -- Travelers in London were presented with copies of a Financial Times spoof edition Friday in advance of the upcoming G20 summit, a newspaper spokesman says.

The unidentified Times spokesman said the newspaper is intent on reporting on next week's summit in London despite the release of a spoof edition with the headline "We Live in Financial Crimes," The Guardian said.

"This isn't the first time that this has happened," the Financial Times spokesman, whose newspaper has the motto "We Live in Financial Times," said.

"We will continue to focus on reporting and analyzing the G20 summit next week."

The fake newspapers were handed out to commuters at the Waterloo station in London and a copy of the edition was made available online at ft2020.com.

A press release from the anti-capitalism campaigners behind the fake edition offered the reasoning behind the literary demonstration.

"This coup was aimed at everyone's excuses for apathy," the campaigners said. "Unless we change the way we live radically, we'll make our world uninhabitable within decades. It's time for drastic action, and if governments won't take it, we have to do something ourselves."