News media outlets worldwide were today left twiddling their thumbs and drinking inordinate amounts of coffee because there was simply nothing to report. The lull between Christmas and the New Year has been long acknowledged as the slackest news p...
It's been a bad year for the light hearted. What with the Antarctic disappearing, the economy exploding, house prices falling faster than an astronaut's toolbox and the price of oil reaching twenty-trillion dollars a barrel, there's been little to laugh at. Look on the bright side: the world could have been sucked into a black hole in October. 2008 was the year of the potato. The year start...
New Yawk, NY-- The major network executives are feeling the pinch of the credit crunch and are taking drastic measures to cut expenses. All three news anchors at CBS, NBC and ABC have been fired. There jobs have been outsourced to India, and the ne...
Veteran newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald has made his last appearance as co-presenter of ITV's News at Ten, but, in the biggest shock of the day, he has been offered a new contract presenting ITV's new show, Strictly Come Newsreading. Sir Trevor, 79...
Russell Brand, the rude, disgraceful, disgusting, despicable dickhead who left offensive and inappropriate comments on Andrew Sachs voicemail, has been revealed as the new presenter of the BBC Ten O'Clock News programme. The freakish Brand made hi...
3 days ago all major television networks in the UK trialled a removal of all news based programmes from the television schedules in response to over-zealous viewers such as someone from Norfolk who claimed that no news is, in fact, good news. In...
Police in in the Midlands have this morning released details of an absolute tragedy in the case of a man who may have taken his own life after apparently becoming 'fed up' of the constant stream of terribly Bad News issuing from his TV set. Forres...
Yesterday saw what could possibly be the first day with no news, so what happened?...
American news networks CNN and ABC News are to be moved to children's channels. Kiddies TV channel spokesman Phil Smith said: 'Yes, we've bought up CNN to air at our prime time of 5 til 7, for the 10 to 14 year-olds. We're confident that such simp...
News stations around the world observed a self-imposed news ban today after several breaking news stories signalled the worst day of news in the history of news reporting.
In an effort to assist the hard of thinking and those who turn immediately to the football pages of their tabloids before reading anything else, the Newspaper Association has announced that from next month, all news in tabloid newspapers (except the...
AUSTIN - A man having a rare good day wherein nothing seemed to be going wrong, was reminded by a thoughtful media that there were thousands of people dying all over the world and that there was absolutely nothing he could do about it except feel gui...
Kaystump, Kentucky - Raccoon Catters, who admits to being around 80 years old, he thinks, has admitted he has never read a newspaper or watched any news on television.
(LONDON) Broadsheet newspapers have struggled for years to keep up with the popularity of the tabloid press. They opted to maintain the high ground by publishing factual news in the vain hope of attracting the 'intelligent reader' niche marke...
THE world's print media will be turning its attention to spoof media websites and publications on Tuesday in anticipation of following up a host of world exclusives.
Today's headline news out of Europe reports of archaeologists discovering an ancient skeleton of a young woman in the Greek city of Veria that apparently underwent a medical procedure known as trepaning (or trephining).
You know it. There should be innovations, originality, creativity in journalism. And all of them try to be creative to differentiate it from the rest, more so in the title, in headlines. It's a maddening crowd, thanks to wired and online news. Bu...
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