The problems with making jokes post below, touches on another interesting post from Virtual Economics in which Seamus McCauley talks about the increasing fusion between factual and opinion-based news coverage. This is very interesting to someone like me because essentially it’s what visual satirists do; try to reveal truths, or opinions, through analogy, visual symbolism and jokes.
Seamus uses a lovely phrase in his piece – the genuine value of satirical news reporting – and goes on to talk about how one of the major problems that today’s conventional journalists are finding, is that the predominant industry business models no longer support what it is, journalists do. In this context he argues, the value of satire, goes up.
‘The gap between news and news satire gets ever smaller, and it seems our understanding of current affairs is all the richer for it.’
Sincere hat-tip to Mr McCauley
