news bulletin – answers

Spoof FT hits London ahead of G20

questions

1. What kind of newspapers are being delivered? spoof copies of the Financial Times
2. What are they hoping to do? provoke public debate
3. How is the G20 meeting described? as crucial
4. Who is the man with the orange headband? one of the prank’s architects
5. How does he describe the spoof paper? as a criticism of how we are living and what we are failing to do to make good on the promises that our leaders made to us about what they’re going to do for us.
6. How many pages does the paper have? 12
7. Where did some of the project funds come from? the internet
8. What is next Wednesday’s protest march called? The G20 meltdown financial fools day protest
9. What does the professor think creates humour? an effigy of a banker that will be hung, burned or eaten
10. Who will he target? businesses in the city that failed to turn off their lights on Saturday (earth hour)
11. What have bankers been warned to do by bosses? to dress down
12. What is running dangerously high? the level of anger among activists