Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Waterford Whispers News" in English language version.
The popular website has been walloped by Facebook's anti-fake news measures, meaning it is likely to lose money in 2018
In the United States, where satire is protected under the First Amendment, the great and good may be ridiculed with impunity by lesser mortals. In Ireland, satirists enjoy no such protection. Indeed, a former Taoiseach once took issue with RTE merely for reporting a story about an unflattering portrait of him surreptitiously exhibited in the National Gallery.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)The letter referenced the image with the article, quoted widely from the article, and called the "parallel universe" in which the article was set "a sham".
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Perhaps no other alternative-media outlet has made as big an impact in recent years as Waterford Whispers News, the satirical website that often cuts hilariously close to the bone.
While RealTimeNews.info does not carry a readily available disclaimer on its web site, the story quoted above is a carbon copy of an article published in 2014 by Waterford Whispers News, a web site that does label itself a satire publication:
On 14 May 2018, the satirical Irish publication Waterford Whispers News reported that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will allow vocalists from Palestine to compete in the famous annual singing contest Eurovision in 2019:
The online publisher has a huge following on social media and, with its fifth Christmas annual publishing recently, founder Colm Williamson told TheJournal.ie that the operation is now a finely-tuned one.
NEWS OUTLETS AND websites in Ireland around the world have been taken in by a story from an Irish satirical website about a North Kor ean mission to the sun.
The story first appeared online at Waterford Whispers News, a satirical website, in April 2014.
On January 21st, a satirical post "appeared at the Waterford Whisper News…" mimicking typical North Korean propaganda;