NewsGroper launches today, a collection of 50+ parody blogs, each written by an anonymous author as if they were an actual celebrity. Barak Obama, Britney Spears and even the Dalai Lama are targeted with some not-unfunny commentary.
The new network was founded by Greg Galant, Adam Varga, Jared Neumark and Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell. It clearly aims to capitalize on the success fo Fake Steve Jobs and other parody sites around real people. They’ve hired fifty anonymous authors to write the blogs.
If they write intelligent and witty stuff, this will clearly become popular. If it’s boring, even the clever idea behind it won’t stop it from falling into obscurity. So far so good, though – some of the initial content is pretty funny. And some of it…isn’t.
‘not-unfunny’ = had to read this a few times to get if it was funny or not
I could not find fake Mike Arrington
Good idea! =)
Putin: “At lobster diner, we talk about Iran. I play the role of “Good Putin,” and I agree with everything the Americans have to say on the subject. At dessert, I plan to play “Bad Putin” and flip over the buffet in an awesome display of rage and power. However, they serve cherry Jell-O jigglers, which are my favorite, and I agree to make some concessions on the nuclear missile shield being placed in Europe.”
LOL There’s nothing a little Jell-O can’t fix.
Fake news Sells$$$.
So much for being yourself.
The new you in somebody trying to be you.
Mike, as usual, your writing is mediocre.
what a total waste of everyones time !
Greg Galant from Venture voice does it again, well done.
I also liked the Putin Quotation “At lobster diner, we talk about Iran. I play the role of “Good Putin,” and I agree with everything the Americans have to say on the subject.”
Thats some funny stuff.
@Yezidi: LOL, “Good Putin,”
@what a piece of cr*p: some people like Mike’s witting, I’m one of them.
@Tom, yes it might be a waste of time, but it’s my time.
wow this is going to give that other fake news place(*) a run for its money
* = could be fox news, cnn, msnbc, etc…basically any one of the mainstream media outlets
yeah this is as bout as cool as truemors ; (which sucks, and sucks some more)
fake new, heh – sucks, RB
boooooorrrrrring… many blogs only have 2 posts and even dated a month+ ago. Must be that these “authors” they hired are really volunteers or they don’t get paid enough to care or they found real jobs.
I really like the concept, and Greg Galant has a history of delivering great content (See VentureVoice.com). This will do well.
a “fake” Mike Arrington is a really good idea…
Not half as funny as the Go Fug Yourself girls.
I don’t know, those Britney blogs are pretty fucking funny…
why are they paying such illiterate people? Couldn’t they at least find someone who could spell-check before posting? Mildly funny at best.
Not a whole lot of uprfromnt costs here, so I have no idea why everyone is such the “idea guy” in these comments.
As they develop the network of, obviously, part-timer writers, they will grow in reach and develop various niche followings; poor execution alone will be the demise.
The only clear competitor would be The Onion.
I strongly believe fake bloggers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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