To Journalism. And Beyond!
By Mitch Berg
I’ve repeatedly said that satire – the Babylon Bee, the Onion, of course Betg’s Law, and of course Titania McGrath, among a few others – are the real journalism of the age.
McGrath [1] proves it with this Twitter thread:
It’s really uncanny; satire exposes our reality better than NPR and Sixty MInutes, combined, have in decades.
May 7th, 2021 at 12:33 pm
I think it is called Muggeridge’s Law, that it is increasingly difficult to do parody because the truth has become so absurd.
McGrath is a true visionary.
May 7th, 2021 at 1:00 pm
Don’t know about Muggeridgeâs Law, but the Internet version of that law is Poe’s Law.
May 7th, 2021 at 2:54 pm
Kinlaw runs off to look up Poe’s law
May 7th, 2021 at 2:58 pm
Heck, the idiot left wing “fact checkers” still “fact check” the Babylon Bee.
Retards.
May 7th, 2021 at 3:23 pm
I likewise looked up ML. Good call on that. Funny. There is so little that’s really new.
May 7th, 2021 at 3:44 pm
You’re a journalist? Like Limbaugh? Ok, when you get sued, don’t blame me.
May 7th, 2021 at 8:39 pm
Another comment that is pure nonsense from Peeve.
To wit. “You’re a journalist?”
Anyone who writes a journal, or engages in the activities of journalism, is, by definition, a journalist.
“Like Limbaugh?”
Rush Limbaugh or David Limbaugh? Both are journalists by any reasonable definition of the word. David Limbaugh has had a column for years, published in real newspapers. Again, a nonsense statement.
“Ok, when you get sued, don’t blame me.”
Sued for what? For being a journalist? For not being a journalist?
PB has always been the same since he began commenting here. Always an idiot, and never, ever, willing to take the heat for his urge to spout nonsense on someone else’s platform.
May 7th, 2021 at 9:55 pm
Pad,
Youâre a journalist? Like Limbaugh? Ok, when you get sued, donât blame me.
a) I write obvservations of the world around me. That’s journalism.
b) More directly, I’m not a “reporter” – not usually (although I have been an actual working news reporter, and I have done some reporting in this blog as well)/
c) Sued? For what?
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I’m fairly sure you’re not either.
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May 8th, 2021 at 9:25 am
So you don’t have to run to the dictionary:
Poeâs Law is named after Nathan Poe, an agnostic user on the message board Christian Forums who posted in 2005: âPOES LAW: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is uttrerly [sic] impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone wont mistake for the genuine article.â
and
Muggeridgeâs Law is: there is no way that a writer of fiction can compete with real life for its pure absurdity.
May 8th, 2021 at 10:06 am
Who is this Titania McGrath?
Is she a Star Tribune reporter?
Or has she already moved to The New York Times?
May 8th, 2021 at 11:04 am
A pseudonym for an author of a couple of books:
https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Social-Justice-Titania-McGrath/dp/1472130847
https://www.amazon.com/First-Little-Book-Intersectional-Activism/dp/1472134273/
I knew about the first, but the second one was a surprise.
May 9th, 2021 at 8:05 am
Paddyboy,
There’s a question on the table.
Please respond.
TYVM.
May 10th, 2021 at 8:33 am
Youâre a journalist? Like Limbaugh? Ok, when you get sued, donât blame me.
So it’s not just Paddyboy’s Tolstoy-length rantings that are nonsensical. The short ones are too.
May 10th, 2021 at 8:45 am
Regarding Paddyboy’s comment, it strikes me that I can’t remember Rush ever being sued, and his error rate is probably no worse than that of the New York Times. A big one from this weekend’s Times is their claim that the Perry study of pre-K schooling generated big gains. In reality, it simply proved that if you spent something like thirty grand a year to educate pre-K kids, you could do marginally better than welfare mothers.
The Times is trumpeting another study that is more of the same today from Boston, and I’m guessing it will have about the same methodological problems.
May 10th, 2021 at 1:01 pm
Greg:
Titania McGrath is a “singular” person parody account on Twitter, who gives the BabylonBee and DPRK News (also Twitter) runs for their money.
May 10th, 2021 at 1:03 pm
Troy, I didn’t know it was a pseudonym for an author. Interesting….