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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework (optional): Find another story of an unusual disaster.
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- What is satire?
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- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secretary-education-betsy-devos-40-million-yacht-set/story?id=56840039 - True story about Betsy DeVos, US Secretary of Education, and her yacht
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/teachers-school-supplies.html - True story about teachers buying classroom supplies
- https://politics.theonion.com/secretary-of-education-reveals-she-s-forced-to-use-own-1828468212 - Satire about DeVos buying yacht supplies
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- crowdfunding = paying for something by getting a small amount of money from a large group (crowd) of people
- https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/ne954m/people-are-crowdfunding-a-new-couch-for-elon-musk-who-owns-five-mansions - True story about crowdfunding a new couch for Elon Musk (However, the writing style is humorous and a bit satirical, even though the facts are true.)
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- The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight also report the real news with a satirical attitude.
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- What’s the difference between satire and fake news?
- - Satire starts from something real to get in a joke about it.
- - Satire (ideally) exaggerates things in a way that makes it obvious that it’s not real, at least to people who are familiar with the context.
- (It can still be hard to tell: http://reddit.com/r/nottheonion - A list of news stories that seem ridiculous enough to be from the Onion, but which are actually real news.)
- - Fake news is intended to mislead people. It usually doesn’t exaggerate true things, it just says false things.
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- parody = making fun of something by imitating it
- Poe’s law = “Without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views.”
- - Sometimes it means there is always someone who really holds views even more extreme than the parody/satire.
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- Is there a specific topic you’d like me to find an article about to discuss tomorrow?
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