Fake news that "keep it real"

Satire, as discussed earlier, is an extremely unstable genre. This causes it to constantly take the form of other genres, for example tragedy and comedy, to be able to spread its message (satire is used in a range of literary works, from Hamlet to Pride and Prejudice). The latest contribution to this range of genres is the satirical genre of parodic news that emerged during the 20th and 21st century. "Fake news" was born somewhere in the 60s and 70s with news shows such as That Was the Week That Was on BBC and This Hour Has Seven Days on CBC. However, these shows largely relied on sketches, songs and invented news items, which made them very different from the parodic news shows we are used to seeing today. Scholars have argued (see Amber Day's Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate) that the satire used in parodic news shows today has got much more efficient and powerful than older "fake news" shows, due to that contemporary programs use real news footage and interview real people (i.e. not fake experts or actors pretending to be politicians). The deconstruction of real political debates, speeches and interviews by news hosts like Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) and Rick Mercer (The Rick Mercer Report) teaches people to deconstruct arguments given by politicians and experts; making people more prone to question and analyze such arguments. Jon Stewart, by constantly pausing news clips to give his own comments on them, assumes the role of the average man in the couch watching TV; he is showing average Joe how he can analyze and deconstruct things politicians and news anchors say easily, just by watching them more intently on the news. The video below is an excellent example of this.

If you plan on writing satire on your own, it is important to think about keeping it real (like they do on the The Daily Show). By showing people how ridiculous the arguments for whatever you want to satirize are, you can teach people how to scruntinize and deconstruct such arguments until they see them for what they really are: stupid.