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Websites that Cover the News
With all the news channels on television and
the news feeds on the internet, you may want to look at news in a
new way with Website Creations selection of "Off Beat News". Learn
the news with a combination of satire and humor added!
The Onion
-Offers award-winning news and views that
readers can't get anywhere.The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 400,000 and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old. Since 2007, the organization has been publishing satirical news audios and videos online, as the "Onion News Network". Web traffic on theonion.com amounts to some 7.5 million unique visitors per month. The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and fictional. It parodies such traditional newspaper features as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes on a traditional newspaper layout with an AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline, "Drugs Win Drug War. The Onion is not intended for readers
under 18 years of age.
The
Daily Show- Politics and Media satire. Tired of having your news spoon fed to you by big network suits and the smaller, chattier suits on cable news? Join Jon Stewart and the Best F#@king News Team Ever as they bring you the news like you've never seen it before, unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy.
The Daily Show is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program that takes a reality-based look at news, trends, pop culture, current events, politics, sports and entertainment with an alternative point of view. In each show, anchorman Jon Stewart and a team of correspondents, including Aasif Mandvi, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, comment on the day's stories, employing actual news footage, taped field pieces, in-studio guests and on-the-spot coverage of important news events.
Created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg in 1996, The Daily Show was hosted by Craig Kilborn until 1999, when Jon Stewart took over the anchor's chair. Since then, The Daily Show has evolved into the sharpest, most incisive satire of politics and the media on television.
The Colbert Report- "Truthy" politics. Stephen Colbert is the host and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody
Award-winning series on Comedy Central, "The Colbert Report." Touted by The New
York Times as "one of the best television shows of the year" and praised as "The
Best Show of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly, "The Colbert Report" has
garnered ratings and critical success as one of the top shows on television. "The Colbert Report" launched on October 17, 2005. Since its inception, the
series has garnered a prestigious Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting
in 2008 and 15 Primetime Emmy nominations. Last fall, Colbert and his writing
team won the show's first Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or
Comedy Program.
Stuff White People Like- Satire of white
privilege. This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain
stuff white people like. Stuff White People Like (sometimes abbreviated as SWPL) is a blog that takes a satirical aim at the interests of North American "left-leaning, city-dwelling, white folk". The blog, hosted by Wordpress, was created in January 2008 by a white Canadian, Christian Lander, a Los Angeles copywriter who grew up in Toronto and graduated from McGill University in Montreal. Lander co-authored the site with his Filipino Canadian friend Myles Valentin, after Valentin teased Lander for watching the HBO television series The Wire. Lander's blog became popular very quickly, registering over 300,000 daily hits and over 40 million total hits by the end of September 2008.
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