Not Much of a Future

A future edition of the Financial Times which drifted through a wormhole in central London yesterday was greeted with scepticism by present-day media. The Real FT praised the presentation, but a former columnist criticised the lack of authenticity in the content, although she admitted that the effect of spoofery was mitigated by headlines that were "particularly bad", and others lauded the contents as "fairly dry". The Guardian attributed one of its own misprints to the future newspaper's Jackson Streicher, misspelled the name of tradeaid correspondent Wimsey Potchot, and declined to comment on the quoted comments of retired Guardian editor Allan Fusbudget. Also in the Guardian, anti-lightbulb campaigner George Monbiot provoked one commenter into confusing humour with satire, and another into claiming that Jackson Streicher was more sober than Shakespeare. Someone else noted that the paper was not an onion.

Update And the Christian Science Monitor, of all things, said that the paper "oozed with snarky zeitgeist".