NEW INTERNET HUMOR SITE OFFERS UNIQUE NEWS EXPERIENCE

A new Internet humor site combines news parodies with the actual stories they cover. This gives the reader both hard-hitting satire and a unique perspective on Internet news.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Dr. Preston Coleman
prestoncoleman@earthlink.net
706-789-3265 (voice, fax)

11/17/03

NEW INTERNET HUMOR SITE OFFERS UNIQUE NEWS EXPERIENCE
Danielsville, GA

With little more than a laptop, a modem, and his imagination, humorist Preston Coleman is taking on some high-caliber competition from his riverside home in rural Madison County, Georgia.

His brainchild, www.RealStupidNews.com, competes with more established websites like The Daily Show online and theOnion.com by offering a unique approach to news satire.

Each news parody is accompanied by a link to the real news story its based on," Coleman explains. You can browse through the headlines and get a look at the weeks news, plus some pretty hard-hitting satire."

RealStupidNews is also unique in the diversity of its news sources, which range from the patriotic DesertNews.com to the environmental PlanetArk.org and include mainstays like CNN.com and FoxNews.com.

But the fledgling websites most valuable asset may be its rapid response to current events. Unlike most of the hundreds of similar websites on the Internet, RealStupidNews posts stories nearly every weekday and includes a variety of content, such as RealStupid Criminals, a RealStupid Horoscope, and satirical ads for the webs top news sites.

Considering the split-second decisions made by web surfers, the headlines at the humor site will eventually determine its success or failure, Coleman believes. A sample of recent headlines:
∙California Recovers from Natural Disasters-No Progress with Man-Made Ones
∙Democrats and Republicans to Merge-Depublicrat Mascot is Flesh Eating Bacterium
∙White House Denies Plan to Dominate World-'Only the Good Parts, Bush Insists

Ironically, RealStupidNews has set a real ambitious goal-to make fake news stories tell deeper truths than real ones.

Dr. Preston Coleman is an author and award-winning scholar who holds advanced degrees in journalism (University of Georgia) and mass media (University of Iowa.) He has taught at the University of Georgia, the University of Iowa, and Kennesaw State University.