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It's the evening: youre exhausted from
your tiring day at work, and as you
stagger
in to your gloomy, cold house, all you
want to do is relax. Kicking off your
muddy boots, you switch the TV on,
turning hopefully to the news. 'And now
to
our top story - war, death and
destruction.'
You
sigh - its as depressing as always,
nothing fresh, nothing new. You
collapse,
shaking into a sobbing heap.
But wait, whats that? Hah, that cant
possibly be a real story shes reading out!
Laughing aloud, your faith in the world
restored, you jump up and down and
start
to dance with the furniture!
This is autospoof, the surprise story that
is read out at the end of the news every
day. The public gets to submit and vote
for their favourite 7 stories each week,
and
the most popular are then chosen. It
makes people want to watch the news,
and
gives much more enjoyment than
normal,
gloom 'n' doom 'entertainment'.
Not a story, but a promise of one...
Fake_20Newsline
[phundug, Sep 09 2008]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2008)
http://www.scienced...09/080908185328.htm
"Fake News Shows Don't Teach Viewers Much About Political Issues, Study Finds" [Ian Tindale, Sep 09 2008]
Wikipaedia-esque_20...al_20news_20website
[hippo, Sep 12 2008]
[link]
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I'd have to know the news in order to vote for my favorite. Once I know it, what's the point of broadcasting it? |
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Watch The Day Today early on - and a bit
later (say 10pm) you could then watch
'Brass Eye' and pretend its a serious
documentary about science or morals. |
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/turning hopefully to the news/? |
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Mock the Week, Not the Nine o' clock News, The Onion, Hayibo, ad nauseum. Where have you been, man? |
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That's a cracking link, Ian.
So fake news is less
informative than real news?
You couldn't make it up... |
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Their methodology involves testing a part
of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon for
differences compared with a control
group. |
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