Oh please, this is satire/political parody. Why is a warning label even necessary!?
Part of the fun of good satire is that moment when you realize, “Geez, he really had me going!”
It’s not Orson Welles in “War of the Worlds” throwing an entire nation into panic (even after he warned his radio audience at the start that it was fiction).
The real problem is this crazy world we live in where the real headlines are more bizarre than anybody’s fertile imagination.
Satire warning label.....come on.
;^)
I completely agree. I have just now caught up to the big 'dustup' over FR 'Satire Warnings' now. Good grief. I think that someone getting angry over being fooled by a satire article is way too full of themselves. Scott Ott/Scrappleface, Iowahawk, John Semmens ... have been posted at FR for over a decade without a need to regulate with rules to placate bruised egos.
One problem is that some people don't seem to have that realization. (Multiple people in this thread seem to have taken this "satire" as true.)
This problem alone can lead to other problems: "A lot of people come to FR and scan the headlines clicking on articles of interest. If they're not familiar with the author or source, they may be misled and may even pass it on to others."
Besides, not everyone has the same idea of fun or wants to click on threads where the source is satire. (I clicked on it because I was skeptical and suspected either wild rumor or an unlabeled satire thread. Since it looked like satire, I was thinking about posting what I did quote had no one already quoted it here.)