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I want to do my research on Automated Insights, the tech company, that is responsible for generation of automatic news media information. There is already an article on this topic in Wikipedia, I would like to dig deep into this topic and do my research. Then I intend to

contribute my knowledge about "Automated Insights" & moreover automatic news generation industry and add /change important details to the topic wiki article page.

I would also like to add details to the article page about Wordsmith, Automated Insight's platform for natural language generation.

I will do my research on the history of the company, how it came to rise and about their current clientele and how they all put this technology to work.

New Topic:

UPGRADE "Satire News".

The ancient Romans are the ones who first defined the unique genre called "Satura". The modern word "satire" derives from this Latin word. But the roman version of Satura was quite different than the what we understand Satire as today. The saturae back then of Horace and Juvenal were more like gentle lectures rather than social commentary. They do use to use criticism to a degree it was acceptable in the society then, which were moderately humorous. The intention was not to provoke any sort real social change or public engagement. Today's satire is way different, it is a very strong tool used to critique specific human behaviors. According to professor, Frank Palmeri "sataric narrative works indirectly through parodic alteration of celebratory forms, established 

discourses and dogmatic pronouncements.

Satire consist of these three elements, which shape the meaning of Satire and helps us to understand the role of Satire in News media presentation:  

Irony: Irony is the main element in Satire, Irony is used, at most times in a humorous way, for the purpose of pointing out the problems with behavior being critiqued. 

Critique: Satire is always a sort of critique of a action taken by a human or their behavior. 

Implicitness: Satire is not just an open statement for the purpose of mimicking someone but instead the critiqued behavior deconstructs itself and makes the arguments/statements more strong out of its own context and makes it more implicit to the audiences.

Satire in Journalism:

   News representation is very important, when the matter comes to a point where the general citizen's and the public's ideology, about the society and the world gets shaped through news media contents. News is the only channel through which we get information about what is going on all around the world, all about our economy and  all about the important events or anything important happening in general. The way news contents gets presented to the audience is very straightforward. This flat and simple way of representing the content lacks engagement with the audience and the way of representation of news has been the same from the very beginning of the news world. According to Merritt, one of the pundits who has been researching in communications field for a very long time said that, Journalism is not only about presenting the truth to the people, rather it is more about making the audience engage into the matter and create a discussion between the audience, which in return will help to bring a solution to the table. The normal way of presentation of news lacks all these important factors, the news is just getting presented in the daily, timely new shows – there is not level of engagement or criticism about the news topics. If there will be not criticism about a topic then the audience will never try to think critically about the matter and if the people are receiving the informations just without even giving a little bit of thinking then they are actually not getting to know either if it’s the truth or the lie. People at this time period don’t tend to do any research or think twice before accepting the news, believing it and creating their ideology and behave in that manner.  

        There are lots of reason behind it, for example, the lack of time to do so, but we need to understand this low level of engagement can be very dangerous as most of the news media corporations all around the world are controlled by few Elites of our society and they can be very easily influenced by any Government body or any private corporations. The pressure from various strong bodies and corporations is real in the news media world. One good example would be, a celebrity personality like Donald J. Trump becoming the president of the United States, in spite of all his background he was still be able to become the president of US. One big reason behind this would be the way he was portrayed in the news media and the average citizens of the United States trusted  the news and created the ideology within themselves about Trump and believed in all his sayings. News these days are mostly prepackaged and they are made and presented with doing very less research. Satire news is the only type of news representation which actually destroys all these barriers and makes people think about the news topics and creates a high level of citizen engagement.

Faina, Joseph (2012), "Public journalism is a joke: The case of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert". 

Littau, Jeremy & Stewart, Daxton (2015)“Truthiness” and Second-Level Agenda Setting, "Satire News and Its Influence on Perceptions of Television News Credibility". 

BBC Worldwide. "Comedy Guide: The Frost Report". 2003. April 19, 2007.

Examples of News Satire:

The cartoon show "South Park" - this a very popular American adult animated series, which is popular all around the world. This series has taken over almost all the important events of the 2000 century and portrayed those events and the individuals related to the events by criticizing their behavior in the show. South Park has taken on personalities like Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Trump and many other politicians and celebrities from every level and places. The goal  this animated TV show plans to achieve is bring out the problems that are being caused by all these personals and showing it to the audience and trying to make them understand the wrong doings of them but by using parody. This show pushed the boundaries of free expression, mocked key government figures, questioned censorship, criticized government policies and always provides a well formulated position on whatever is in the news. It is very hard to grab attention of the audiences these days and normal way of news representation fails to do so, especially the new genration's attention can be only grabbed if there is something of their interest in the content and when there is comedy and animation involved with a storyline, this makes the content way more appealing to the audience. The audience usually try to understand the matter naturally if they are interested in the topic and the easy way the complicated news is portrayed in "South Park" show that there is no one would understand the content, rather they tend to like it. This is only possible by Satire and this show is a great example of Satire representation of news media.  

       Another good example of Satire will be The Colbert Report. This show is a modern political Satire, it is very different than my first example, this TV show is more like presenting news to the audience, very similar to regular News shows, but the difference is that the news is presented in a satiric style, this creates more discussion about the news and more involvement to the matter. Colbert usually makes statements that are logically untrue but bases them not in logic, but on faith and nationalism or any other belief, just not based on rational thoughts, which ultimately makes the topic impossible to argue rationally. The host in these kinds of shows tend to have the capability to present the news with humor and criticizing it in a natural manner. Even the complicated news in these kinds of shows looks very simple and the host, they usually tend to explain the matters in a very simple way with humor added to it. The Colbert Report is really famous among the communications pundits both positively and negatively. Lots of pundits seems to criticize the show, according to them if satire is added to a news show then it becomes a joke and the audience will never take the news seriously – this is what they and their theories says. Opposing them are also many pundits like Fiona, who thinks that  adding satire is very important to news, she argued that satiric journalism one of the right ways to do journalism, according to her news should be presented with a little dose of self reflection – this creates more engagement and participation of citizens towards the news and also in result it increases the number of people making informed decisions towards politics/voting etc