The decline of faux news, and Halloween

.. and no, I’m not talking about Fox News in particular, though I think they often fall into the faux news category, along with many other large news organizations. I’m talking about those grocery store mags that used to sport such imginative headlines as “Baby born talking! Gives winning Lotto numbers!,’” and “Midget flushed down toilet by mistake!” These former superpower cesspools of silliness have now dropped to the level of Jerry Springer and Inside Edition. For example, as I write, Inside Edition sports a headline — “Elizabeth Edwards spotted without wedding ring.” Booooring. But we expect that from IE. But National Enquirer online is no more exiting with “007 CONNERY ARAB ACT-IVST,” with a misspelling of the “ivist” part. Other than the bad spelling, we have nothing of the old NE in that kind of news. Where’s the alien abduction, 400-year-old baby, Bermuda Triangle nightclub, Elvis sighting stuff?

Leave it to The Onion (profanity and nudity aside) to come up with the best faux news headlines today. I love today’s “Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?,” and the video is downright hilarious.

In The Know: Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?