a matter of fact in the new yorker magazine published an article written by alec wilkinson concerning one jean pierre ady fenyo a years of age individual who would sit out in greenwich village and offer passersby free advice in the first media reports about the three free advice ladies began to appear why because unbeknownst to the general public amy alkon and her two colleagues minnick and johnson had read the article in the new yorker and figured they could make it appear to be their own original idea nothing could be further from the truth the evidence exists at the official free advice man web site when the original free advice man went back up to new york from baltimore where he was residing at the time and confronted the three intellectual thieves he asked them without first divulging his own respective identity where they had come up with the idea because they were not under the spotlight of a major mass media outlet they divulged the truth we read this article in the new yorker and thought that this would be fun to do nowhere not on oprah not on cnn or anywhere else did these three persons inform the public that they were making their fame at the expense of someone else's idea