Word: fakeness
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...presses running when the Enquirer switched to color. Though the staid name chosen for the paper suggested a down-market version of Foreign Affairs, it was for its first few years one more celebrity gossip rag. Then Eddie Clontz became editor, and WWN gleefully leapt into the quicksand of fake news. (Read all about the paper's history in a comprehensive Washington Post obit...
...Within its ethic of fake, WWN constructed an impressive cosmology. It focused on nearly every aspect of world and otherworldly news. The paper ransacked Bible history, then rewrote it, from Genesis (the Garden of Eden's first lovers were Adam and Ed) to the Ten Commandments ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" had the codicil "unless you in turn are willing to share thine own wife with him") to the Last Supper (where the main course was pizza). But the supreme WWN Biblical expos?e, which I read in 1994, had a headline that read, as I recall...
...dropped from over a million in its late-'80s-early-'90s heyday to a current circulation under 100,000. Old-time staffers complain the paper's quality went in the commode when the veterans were replaced by young comedy writers. But the real explanation, I think, is that fake news has spread beyond The Onion and the satirical TV shows to the front pages of the most distinguished newspapers. Over the past six years we've read such headlines...
...creates the sensation of being outside your body. Scientists in the U.K. and Switzerland had subjects wear virtual-reality goggles in which their own images appeared, then rubbed their backs with a stick while rubbing the virtual selves with a virtual stick. Sure enough, the subjects thought the fake image was the real them...
...News That Was Fit to Fake...