[Finny]

To be effective satire should never be obvious. Labeling it as such caters to the superficial, uninformed reader.

By the same token, it should be presented with the understanding that it IS satire. For example, people watch Saturday Night Live or MAD TV for the satire. They watch the nightly news for the lack of it. To slip satire into a format like FRs, where headlines summarize the content in a news format, is a little annoying.

I'm in the habit of looking at the source. If it's an intriguing headline but from Satire News (or whatever that is), WND, etc., I move on where if it had come from a local newspaper or such source, I'd have clicked on it.

[DoughtyOne]

You make good points.

I don’t always check the source, to my detriment. It has cost me at times.

What I detest more than anything else, is the headline that is so misleading that the body of the story causes the headline to be seen as a complete and total lie, just to get people to read on.