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Satire in journalism
I have to write a satirical article for newspaper, it can be about anything, but preferably something going on in this world at the moment. Any ideas? I can't seem to think of anything...
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If you are talking about hunmor then here is a few......
Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas , asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence..
Then Obama said into the microphone, "Children, uh, every time I, uh, clap my hands together, a, uh, child in America dies from, uh, gun violence."
Little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said, '' Well, dummy, stop clapping!"
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watch a couple episodes of South Park. they are brillantly satirical.
but as goes for topics, you could do celebritites or the publics obsession with celebrities. politics and political scandals. clicky high school girls who say "like" and "omg" alot. overly pompous athletes. or anything you can really think to make fun of for. satire is really just a form of mocking.
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Here is a process you can always use to help you get great ideas/topics for papers.
Start with a blank piece of paper.
In the center, write the keyword of the assignment (and synonyms if you'd like) - in this case "Satire, Sarcasm, Ridicule" - and circle them all in one circle.
Next, around the circle, write general/broad words having to do with current events. Eg. politics, sports, tv, fashion, crime, olympics, ...just keep writing words that come to mind - anything related to current events.
From each one of the current event words you wrote, create a bunch of lines around it with possible topics to make fun of (satire)..
For example:
Politics - congress talking about another bailout, Pres. Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize (take the side for or against and make fun of the other side), health care (ridicule something about it)
Sports - Ex-cons in the NFL, Olympics decision, etc (write a paper ridiculing the topic)
TV - reality tv (ridicule them),
etc. etc.
All your current events words will have possible topics around them to make fun of. Keep branching out from each word until you have an idea you're interested in writing about.
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