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Subject: Truthiness
PowerPointRanger    7/24/2007 7:21:51 AM
"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/business/media/24mag.html?ei=5065&en=aa816a854ade1ce3&ex=1185854400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print" It seems journalists now have a new standard for their reporting. The story no longer has to be true, as long as it sounds true. Perhaps we need a new literary category: journalistic fiction.
 
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sentinel28a       7/24/2007 10:52:33 AM
I've thought seriously about making up a fake blog detailing just incredibly laughable "atrocity stories"--stuff like American soldiers confiscating Harry Potter books from Iraqi children, or forcing the Gitmo prisoners to watch Pokemon.
 
I have the distinct feeling that at least one news wire or paper would e-mail me asking to use my stuff.  The only reason I don't is because I could get sued, or worse, someone would take me seriously.
 
 
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PowerPointRanger    Parody   7/28/2007 10:42:54 AM
Actually, you can get away with quite a lot as long as it is clearly identified as a parody.  Just look at South Park.  But they have that warning at the start & all people can do is gripe.  The SCOTUS has ruled that parady is a protected form of speech.
 
Or look at the Onion.  Actually, a Chinese news service once once plaigerized a story from the Onion about replacing the capital dome in Washington with a retractable roof.
 
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theBird       8/8/2007 11:32:29 AM
I always liked this one, http://www.landoverbaptist.org, a lot of people seem to have trouble figuring out that they are a parody site (though to be fair they deny all implications of parody and claim that folks who think they are a parody are going to spend the rest of eternity in hell!) 
 
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