Well, it looks like a bunch of pranksters created a phony New York Times, and handed it out in major cities:

The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the pranksters — who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times employees and Steven Lambert, an art professor — financed the paper with small online contributions and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promise

The usual suspects for organizing this are the Yes Men, and there is a web page, which, at least for me, is not that Firefox friendly.