Alex Goldman
Alex Goldman is a producer for On the Media and the co-host/creator of TLDR. He is on twitter here. Subscribe to the TLDR podcast here.
The National Report/nationalreport.net is not real news. Don't link to it. Don't share it. It's fake.
The next time you see someone passing around an article from The National Report as though it were real, please share this webpage with them.
This has been a public service announcement.
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Greetings,
As editor-in-chief for the National Report I can tell you the NR is an entertainment site for those 18 & older. We publish satirical content and lampoon the mainstream media. The Internet is awash with this information about the NR. Google it. I rest my case. Alex Goldman what is it you're selling here? Software to block satire sites such as Stephen Colbert and The Onion? Let me say satire is an ancient form of literary art. The many components necessary to make satire work such as the art of misdirection not everyone understands let alone can write. Why do you hate America and the First Amendment sir? Millions of people read the NR so if you're selling them a subscription to OTM & they're dumb enough to buy it please keep them. They're to damn dumb to get it anyway. My best to you sir,
So your "public service" is to drum up readers on your site by syphoning some of the millions of readers National Report gets? That sounds less like a public service, and more like a serve-yourself. People know National Report is satire. If stupid people aren't aware, they learn eventually, and it makes them less stupid each time they get fooled. And more to the point, the content is funny for people smart enough to understand it. So you aren't doing anyone a "service" here. You're just being bitter.
The National Report is a satire site. The disclaimer is at the bottom of the page. Are you going to post similar warnings about _The Onion_?
What a humorless tool you are.
Uh, are you trolling us? I'm not sure if this "PSA" is sarcastic or real. It's like announcing that The Onion is fake. Poe's Law strikes again.
I guess I'll bite. National Report is Internet-era satire. It's the Colbert Report to the Onion's Daily Show. It severely mocks the absurdity, ignorance and fears of mainstream America. In the same dry breath, it trolls uptight liberals and intellectuals. In that regard, it can actually be considered really high-brow artistic commentary.
If FNC actually cites them, then the National Report team must feel really bad about what they've done.
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/drugtaskforce.asp
For a real public service,it would provide credibility if you would describe what your issues are with the website. I've been reading about, for instance, malware for 15 years. But I've never heard warnings about a website for being fake. Is there a service, like siteadvisor.com, where we can check on the possible fakeness of a suspected website? What was your yardstick for making your determination?
For reference sake, I respect your opinion and I'm sure you're right about that website. I'd just like to see some backing-up facts.
Thanks,
-neil-
Did you know that everything on http://www.p4rgaming.com/ is also fake and lies? This has been another useless post by Santiago, from the internet
Isn't it pretty obviously a fake? other than fox news - who is citing them? or is this a fake warning?
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