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_ Reality-Challenged _ AG Eric Holder Directs DOJ to Shut Down Wikipedia - The Spoof (satire)

Posted by: Newsfeed


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The Spoof (satire)
WASHINGTON DC - United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Department of Justice will be shutting down the Wikipedia website to ...

http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dPkYej-it43krnM

Posted by: Moulton

An encouraging word...

QUOTE(From the story)
Holder said that he was "appalled" by the leak.

Ottava take note. It's not that hard to utter the True Word that names your affective emotional state.

Posted by: thekohser

That may be the worst Wikipedia-related "spoof" that I've ever read. Very unfunny. I'm not appalled, but I'm squarely disappointed.

Posted by: Somey

QUOTE(thekohser @ Sat 14th August 2010, 8:10am) *

That may be the worst Wikipedia-related "spoof" that I've ever read. Very unfunny. I'm not appalled, but I'm squarely disappointed.

It's user-generated content, though, and as I learned from my Uncyclopedia experience, crowdsourcing is not the best way to produce comedy material of lasting value.

Then again, a wiki is theoretically a better way to do that than a fake news site with bylines - at least on a wiki, people can come along and change stuff that isn't very funny. Unfortunately, they also change stuff that is very funny.