The New York Times
Jan. 29, 2008
The Topical Satire Initiative
This was a good article that I thought was worth posting about. At first I didn't catch on to what is was saying and thought that the author was serious. Then I caught on to it being a satire. It goes on to say that the State of the Union address forgot one of the most important issues of our generation: human-animal hybrids. After a couple more elements of satire, the author actually goes on to breaking down what the President covered in his speech. I really liked the article because it was a funny way to cover what happened in the State of the Union address.
If you would like to read:
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/state-of-the-union-a-shocking-omission/index.html?ref=opinion
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3 comments:
I agree that satire is often a good way to get the reader hooked or interested. I think this is an especially good i dea when discussing something like the state of the union, which can often times be extremely boring. However from your summary i was unable to pick up on what the article was really discussing. I hope the author was able to get his point across but from your review I am not quite sure if he did.
I also agree that satire is an interesting way to get a reader to listen, but from what I read last night on "A Modest Proposal," it can also be confusing for some people.
I went to the link and read this article and I thought it was very effective. The use of satire to bring up the issue that the State of the Union address really addresses nothing in particular and is just a bunch of issues being briefly stated was very clever! I thought the author did a good job of getting his point across.
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