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kpete

(72,005 posts) Wed Apr 4, 2012, 07:54 PM Apr 2012

Oops, MSNBC reports (Daily Kos) fictional, satirical piece as real news



Apparently this and the fact it was published on Huffington Post's Comedy vertical escaped the eagle eyed journalists at MSNBC, who reported the story as news this morning.
Oops.

Lesson to MSNBC, don't believe everything you read on the internet.

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Oops, MSNBC reports (Daily Kos) fictional, satirical piece as real news (Original Post) kpete Apr 2012 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author davidthegnome Apr 2012 #1
For some time now, many people have lost the ability to recognize satire deutsey Apr 2012 #2
Things are so crazy now that less sophisticated people can confuse reality and satire. libinnyandia Apr 2012 #3

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2. For some time now, many people have lost the ability to recognize satire
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Apr 2012

This form of humor requires complex, subtle thought capable of understanding that irony was not what Alanis Morissette thought it was, which explains the widespread inability to appreciate satire.

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