Research Guides @ Fordham: Fake News: Satirical News

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What is Satire?

You may already be familiar with popular satirical news sites like the Borowitz Report, the Onion, or SatireWire.

But there are many, many more. Some satirical news sites are easy to suss out by their names, such as Click Hole, the Daily WTF, and the Oxymoron. However, others have names that seem as if they could be reputable, like the Daily Currant, the Valley News, and Weekly World News.

It may be easy to tell on the satirical newspaper website that it is not reporting real news, but if you take one article in isolation, it can be more difficult.

Checking Satire

Real or Satire
Copy a URL into the search box to see if the site you're looking it is real or satire. As with fact-checking sites, use judiciously.

Satire @ Fordham

Satire can be an effective way to express opinions and perceptions.

The Rival
Fordham's satirical newspaper

History and Theory of Satire

The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News by Amarnath Amarasingam (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) PN1992.77.D28 S74 2011
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2011.
Satire by John T. Gilmore
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Electronic resource; authentication is required.
The Power of Satire by Marijke Meijer Drees
Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.
Electronic resource; authentication is required.
A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern by Ruben Quintero
Call Number: (RH) PN6149.S2 C64 2011
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U. S. Policy and Culture [2 Volumes] by Jody C. Baumgartner
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, 2019.
Electronic resource; authentication is required.
The Literature of Satire by Charles A. Knight
Call Number: (RH) PN6149.S2 K48 2004
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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