Roots Redux
June, 2007
THEY'VE REPLACED THE FINE NEWS YOU USED TO READ WITH UTTER GARBAGEDrew Curtis knows his crap. As founder of the blog Fark .com, he's the Net's king of links to useless journalism. In It's Not News. It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News, he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and spacefilling fluff. We asked for his favorite fake-news genres. Overpriced food items. Mark up your hamburger 1,000 percent and every paper in the land will put your restaurant in its style secti...
