“The Onion is the world’s leading
news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of
breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble
beginnings as a print newspaper in 1765, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3
trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential
organization in human history...
The Onion supports more than 350,000 full- and part-time journalism jobs in its numerous news bureaus and manual labor camps.”
The Onion supports more than 350,000 full- and part-time journalism jobs in its numerous news bureaus and manual labor camps.”
Funny stuff! No intelligent person could read that and think it
was serious.
“NewsBiscuit was launched by John O’Farrell in
September 2006 with the noble aims of eradicating global poverty, creating a
lasting peace in the Middle East and providing a daily dose of humour to bored
people at work. And in many respects we have already achieved so much more.”
Like The Onion’s about page, this is very tongue in cheek.
“The Enduring Vision is an
award-winning satirical webpage. It has been around in some form or another
since the dawn of man; early forms of the site's logo and layout have been
discovered in caves where human ancestors were known to live. This makes The
Enduring Vision the original news satire publication, even though now there are
about 100 million others.”
Again, funny.
“R. Hobbus J.D. is an internationally acclaimed
independent investigative journalist specializing in international politics,
health, business, science, conflict resolution, history, geography,
mathematics, social issues, feminism, space travel, civil rights, human rights,
animal rights, fashion, film, astronomy, classic literature, religion, biology,
paranormal activity, the occult, physics, psychology, and creative writing… He
has received numerous awards for his work including the prestigious Stephen
Glass Distinction in Journalistic Integrity (2011), The Oscar Mayer Award for
Journalistic Excellence (2003), three Nobel Peace Prize nominations, one
Pulitzer in Investigative Reporting (1998), and two Pulitzer Prizes in
Commentary (1996, 2008). He resides comfortably in his modest home overlooking
the coast of Nantucket surrounded by his wife and twelve cats.”
Although CAP News doesn’t have an about page, at the very bottom
of the webpages it clearly says, “All material is satire.”
Some satirical websites have
highly visible slogans at the tops of the pages that tell readers what they’re
in for.
News Mutiny: Satire for the
wise. News for the dumb.
So, if you find yourself
reading something and you wonder whether it’s real or fake, take a look at the
about page and you’ll probably be able to figure it out.
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