« Oversticker
Literary Menu »

Fantasy Newspaper

I have always wanted to publish a daily newspaper, full of the news I would want to read not the actual news. Lots of good stuff like: `Drunk sobers up`, `Poet appointed President of World Bank`, `Lawyer hands back fees after losing case` and so on…

Tags:

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm and is filed under Writing, by John Shapter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Fantasy Newspaper”

  1. Phil H Says:
    June 7th, 2008 at 6:02 am

    I suspect that the closest you’ll get is theonion.

    I used to want a paper that told us about the good things going on; The Good Times. But I’m now old enough to realise that people only want to hear bad things and then complain that The World Is Getting Worse.

  2. jimkennedy Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 4:24 am

    Ask and you shall receive…

    http://www.theinternetnowinhandybookform.com/bahoogle/goodnews.html

  3. lex Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    also check out: goodnewsnetwork.org