- Humor (Nonfiction), Mass media, Nonfiction, Sociology
While comedy shows report funny fake news, Fark.com features funny real news. On slow news days, mainstream media still has to deliver. Fark founder Drew Curtis has noticed several distinct patterns used to turn non-news into the news you see each day.
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Contemporary, cool, comic and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Drew Curtis
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Gotham, Penguin Group USA, Inc., Gotham Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781429534369
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“Fark is what fills space when mass media runs out of news.”
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