G.K. Chesterton believed reality would one day kill satire. He wrote in 1911: “Satire has weakened in our epoch for several reasons, but chiefly, I think, because the world has become too absurd to be satirised.”That’s even truer in 2020. No satirical article is so absurd that people won’t believe it to be true. Snopes has fact-checked articles as bizarre as the Onion’s “Shelling From Royal Caribbean’s M.S. ‘Allure’ Sinks Carnival Cruise Vessel That Crossed Into Disputed Waters” and the Babylon Bee’s “Ocasio-Cortez Appears...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 21, 2020 21:33 UTC