The newspaper was fake because no mention of the Coronavirus and George Floyd.   
      
   On Friday, January 2, 2004 at 2:24:27 PM UTC-8, Roedy Green wrote:   
   > A passing time traveller left a newspaper behind from 2020.  He is not   
   > supposed to do that, but there are slips. Should be no problem   
   > publishing this as no one will take it seriously.   
   >   
   > There is a petition going around the internet to delete the letter W   
   > from the alphabet.  The sound will be kept, but represented by a   
   > letter looking like a backwards capital E.   
   >   
   > Gasoline is selling at $1000 a gallon. It is available by lottery at   
   > $500 a gallon.  SUV owners get free tickets as a hardship bonus.   
   >   
   > Ghetto tourism is big.  Europeans and Japanese arrive in armoured, air   
   > filtered busses to view the exciting inner cities they have seen so   
   > often on holovision.  Highlights of a tour usually include a shootout   
   > and even an actual beheading, the latest craze.   
   >   
   > The last of the great whales died. The autopsy showed cancer, heavy   
   > metal and general pollutants to be the cause of death.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.   
   > Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.   
   > See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)