It's election week somewhere!
Sep. 4th, 2010 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melannenFor awhile, when I first got into this fandom, I was afraid I was turning into a news junkie. And then I realized that I can only watch fake news, because real news is too depressing. And then I realized the only time I'm really addicted to the news is when there's a national election going on.
The problem is, I've got almost two months until the US national elections, and TDS/TCR have been on break; the British National Elections were four months ago, Parliament and HIGNFY are on break; Australia still lacks a government, but I've watched all of Yes We Canberra and the election episodes of Good News Week are taking forever to torrent; Brazil has upcoming elections, but according to the Bugle (which is, at least, back from hiatus) they are forbidden to parody them.
But you know who else has upcoming national elections?
LATVIA!
Oh, but surely, you are thinking, there is no fake news coverage of the Latvian elections. But you would be wrong! Latvia has its own fake news show, and it's called Bez Tabu, which means something like "No Taboos", and it streams free online with no regional restrictions. (Why, no, I don't speak Latvian. But if you go to about min 7 of the most recent episode, there are sheep!)
And now that you're aware of just how sad & desperate I am when I need a fix, perhaps you would like to know about some of the sources of fake news I've found that are slightly more comprehensible to English-language fandom than Bez Tabu? Hence, I give you this:
( A short introduction to some lesser-known current sources of multimedia topical satire (in English). )
And, for the record, our glorious moderator on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
punditfic has told me that fic for any of these shows is acceptable on this community! (...she may come to regret that.)
The problem is, I've got almost two months until the US national elections, and TDS/TCR have been on break; the British National Elections were four months ago, Parliament and HIGNFY are on break; Australia still lacks a government, but I've watched all of Yes We Canberra and the election episodes of Good News Week are taking forever to torrent; Brazil has upcoming elections, but according to the Bugle (which is, at least, back from hiatus) they are forbidden to parody them.
But you know who else has upcoming national elections?
LATVIA!
Oh, but surely, you are thinking, there is no fake news coverage of the Latvian elections. But you would be wrong! Latvia has its own fake news show, and it's called Bez Tabu, which means something like "No Taboos", and it streams free online with no regional restrictions. (Why, no, I don't speak Latvian. But if you go to about min 7 of the most recent episode, there are sheep!)
And now that you're aware of just how sad & desperate I am when I need a fix, perhaps you would like to know about some of the sources of fake news I've found that are slightly more comprehensible to English-language fandom than Bez Tabu? Hence, I give you this:
( A short introduction to some lesser-known current sources of multimedia topical satire (in English). )
And, for the record, our glorious moderator on
punditfic has told me that fic for any of these shows is acceptable on this community! (...she may come to regret that.)
