The Daily Currant, run by an entrepreneurial young man in Michigan, is a website designed to make people laugh, and perhaps think, but not to fool them. Its headlines are shrewd enough to be funny, but not really believable:
“U.S. Sends Toy Guns to Syrian Opposition”
“Hugo Chavez Will Remain President of Venezuela”
“Sean Penn Praises Chavez, Calls George Washington a ‘Loser’ ”
Trending: Trump’s decision to host the G7 at one of his properties was an unforced error
There are, of course, millions of extremely literal people out there. And the World Wide Web is, yes, a global medium. So for folks in the vast cyber-audience who don’t speak English perfectly — or who don’t understand American wit — the Daily Currant (the name itself is a pun) has an “about” section on its site that begins this way:
Q: “Are your news stories real?”
A: “No. Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real-world issues through satire and often refer and link to real events happening in the world.”
