Talk:News satire/Archives/2013
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um, the onion? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 166.44.39.104 (talk) 01:24, May 23, 2005
List of external links needs to be trimmed down significantly. Five or six should be more than enough. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.18.162.88 (talk) 10:50, August 8, 2006 'Bold text'
First use of "fake news"?
Can anyone provide a source to confirm or deny that Norm MacDonald's line, "I'm Norm MacDonald, and now for the fake news," was the first use of that term to describe news satire? I did an extensive Google search, but can't come up with reliable sources for the first use, only that the line itself is associated with him. (First used Episode 20, No. 1 of SNL - see Weekend Update, September 24, 1994, unofficial transcript) Lawikitejana 09:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
phony newspaper headings
have there been any articles written on the convention/running gag of putting satirical newspaper headings on newspapers in film and television? If not, perhaps something along those lines should be included in this article -Shaggorama 03:44, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Sources
This article is Desperately lacking sources. Please get sources on this ASAP. Also, the See also section is getting out of hand, it would probably be better to have a "List of satirical news programs" or a category for them than having that list get so out of control --Lucid 01:52, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
refs
This article has a lot of inline external links that need to be converted to footnotes using <ref> tags, especially in the web section. I might get time to work on that soon, but anyway, if anyone else is watching you are welcome to help as well. Also, the tone of the web section, especially when talking about the Onion, is a major no-no—much of the article reads more like a blog post. —Politizer talk/contribs 06:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Another site to add to the list
You can clearly tell that it is a fake news site. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (talk) 01:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
There needs to be separate articles for fake news and news satire
The Onion is NOT the same as the Daily Show! 71.192.108.214 (talk) 01:48, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
- Fake news is a term used to mean political lobbying efforts masquerading as reputable news sources. Fake news should not redirect to News satire.94.222.180.62 (talk) 13:43, 24 April 2011 (UTC)