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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (990557)	12/27/2016 8:48:38 PM
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Andy Borowitz? "Writing in Salon.com, Alex Pareene criticized Borowitz as "incredibly bland" and a "one-man fake news machine" who produces "with soothing predictability an endless stream of topical jokes and sentences that resemble jokes." Borowitz, Pareene wrote, plays primarily to "self-satisfied liberals" with material that "is designed to elicit a smirk of recognition and agreement from your average polite NPR listener." Pareene concluded, "The best humor involves the element of surprise. Borowitz never surprises. . . . Borowitz is perfect for the comfortable old liberal readership of the New Yorker, so long as no one wants to even slightly challenge or surprise them." Gawker.com has called Borowitz a "hack New Yorkersatirist" who has waged "a war of attrition on the very idea of comedy." Gawker later criticized Borowitz for his brand of "algorithm-friendly fake news parasites that plague our Facebook timelines under the auspice of satire. Satire that is little more than a vehicle for misinformation and much more akin to a lie than anything else." In Slate.com, Ben Mathis-Lilley wrote that Borowitz's "work is so tepid that people often share it without realizing it's supposed to be funny." "