The hyped-up news cycle has been a boon to the fake news racket. For one thing, there is a steady flow of new material. And for another, a more informed public means a bigger potential audience. When Cat Stevens was barred from entering the country late last month after showing up on a terrorist watch list, Mr. Borowitz said he sat down to write a fake news story about it. ”You don’t have to start by saying to the audience, `See, there was this singer-songwriter from the 70’s named Cat Stevens,’ ” he said. ”In comedy parlance that was called the set-up. Now you can go straight to the punch line.” (Mr. Borowitz came up with ”Angry Cat Stevens Vows to Resume Singing: Broadcasts Threat on Al Jazeera.”)
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