Writing a satiric piece about Anthony Weiner's sexting and cyber-stalking misdeeds, after all, might be a good thing. Giving him a good slam over the head for such perverted transgressions which he did while in Congressional office deserves a prize, not punishment. And making fun of a pundit on the other side of the fence who oftentimes displays hostility, animosity, and cruelty with a humorous skit so outrageous and ridiculous nobody would actually believe it as real news might just be what the other side needs for some much needed relief. Even penning something crazy about STDs can work when a boring and stale Public Service Announcement falls flat on its face. Continuing, Faith healer frauds who pilfer money, build fortunes for themselves and blaspheme the Holy Name of God? Sure, they're targets, too, and sure need to be!
So anybody considering my "fake news" attempts or comedic sketches anything other than comedy and satire really needs to get some common sense. All I really care is did you laugh at some of them? Did you think they were funny? Do you think they attacked a menace that needed to be targeted? And if you confused any of my "fake news" as real news, get real, man! All the stories I write in this vein are so preposterous, so unbelievably ludicrous, that only a true freak would mistake them as "real news". My online offerings of comedy, satire, and yes, even "fake news" were never written to mislead a reading public, but rather, to inform a reading public of some real fire-breathing dragons flying around our society's skies!
Do you really believe in humungous "fracking spaceships" on their way to a gaseous planet way out there in our Solar System? Wouldn't NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and your local newspaper have an account of such a solar sojourn? Call your psychiatrist right away if you do - try to get in later this afternoon! And if you believe this fake news account about Detroit, you might need some in-patient hospitalization. And after you heard of the way Donald Trump said about how he accosts and then assaults, and even how he feels up and objectifies women while talking to Billy Bush on that bus, sure, he's a target, too. This list on Points In Case, once part of the now defunct National Lampoon Humor Network, is a list of 25 things to check for if your #1 girl is cheating on you with the great leader of the Orange Race. It's hardly "fake news" but rather, a point-by-point satirical essay, of sorts. I think it's my PIC list that applies to his self-serving, ostentatious, predatory, strange, barbaric monster, and it's all rooted in truth.
A lot of the time I write fake news not about people, but about societal menaces that I feel are a threat to Americans and the world. Sometimes I even write a hoax on the "new journalism" taking on the face of tweets, texts and big, big pictures that's dripping with delicious and salacious sexual accoutrements. Yikes! Of course, readers kind of wonder where a writer's mind is at whenever his byline appears after the headline of a story about a sex doll factory, but hey, the little ditty on the California company got a walloping amount of reads. Sex is sexy to readers and that's why I pulled an actual company "business story" off a "weird news" section of another progressive online mag and rolled with it. Satire also acts as a way to monitor the pulse of what intrigues folks. And yes, sex and perverted deviancy are still a fit, not to mention the fact that the online mag where this story appears is particularly popular among young people. Sex is always a hit with them, but if you write something, it better be short, humorous, and outlandish. And hooking a story into a PSA about a goofy, off-the-wall advertisement that flew on foreign TVs of the dangers of having unprotected sex might work to save a few lives, not only get a few laughs. Yes, I feel good satire and comedy, if used correctly, can be didactic. Like a life saver in an ocean of societal, peer-pressure-cooker insanity. I care about people, especially young people, and if they don't have to get a disease, why should they?
And other stories I've written about companies setting up shop in America have a starker and more existential basis. Like a story I wrote on a factory in Florida that was incorporated to make machine guns. Or another establishment in Florida that will feature a tavern and a shooting range under one roof. What could possibly go wrong?! If it bleeds, it leads, and this place will become really famous real quick. Carpenter, you have spilled the whiskey! And of course, a dark and shocking story - not funny at all, but horrid and ugly - about a convenient store robbery gone terribly awry and bloody in an inner city setting might show some people that the Second Amendment, not the First Amendment, is a thing that requires a good looking into - so if you want to change something, go to #2 and just skip over #1!
So the FTC Takes Aim at 'Fake News' Websites? Is it such a good thing, without consequence? Should we buy what the newly elected 'big brothers' are selling here?
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Writing a satiric and comedic piece about a city so heavily polluted that the city fathers gave it the name The Gateway to Death is okay, too, especially if the city used as a model for the story has so many similarities to the fictional city that both stories almost seem to be one and the same. Sometimes satire works when hard-copy news fails. it's brutal, sure. I'm absolutely positive that the targets of biting and acidic satiric stories become enraged, including the politicos in the areas of smoking dread and polluted lakes and rivers, but hey, if you don't want the heat, stay out of the fire's cinders that burned your feet, fool.
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It's going to be a sad day in America when writers, actors, comedians, and even other politicians have to worry about what they do or say. We have a President Elect who's a Second Amendment maniac but who happens to suffer from such paranoia and such an ego that he wants nothing bad to be said or written about him. Let's face it, this is the root of this "fake news" problem. Our Illustrious Trumpensteinian ruler. No, Mr. Satire Writer, you can't write a comedy skit about all those people in rural America who were crazy over Trump who will lose their Medicare, because reports have it that the first thing on Paul Ryan's chopping block is putting to death Medicare - or at least drastically changing it through some kind of hoodoo voodoo privatization - and if he can do it, he plans to throw it under the bus as soon as 2017. So that story you wanted to write for a comedy zine - well watch it - you might lose the farm, possibly even become a jailbird for scribbling it all out. Yeppers, all those old gray hairs sitting on the porch, with a senile octogenarian who can't see all that well trying to operate the blood pressure contraption. And a minor character snorting, "I voted for Trump and now it costs me $250 to get that flu shot in my rump!" along with a 40-year-old disabled farmhand with a bad heart having a heart attack and screaming as he flops around, "Don't call an ambulance, my Medicare co-pay was $10 and now it's privatized all the way up to $350!" Well, maybe, Mr. Satire Writer, you'll just have to shuffle that brilliantly written Word Doc over into the delete document folder with your trusty mouse. And it's all because a few entitled, power-gorged narcissists don't want anything bad said about them. Let's get real, honest and "transparent".
So writer beware or fight like hell.
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