If you want to yak about the day’s silliest story – and your boss isn’t looking – there’s no place more fun to beat the press to a pulp than Fark.
Drew Curtis can put a snappy headline on the dreariest day, and since 1999, he’s turned Fark into one of they best places to watch contemporary society get crushed under the weight of its own nonsense.
Curtis takes a decidedly hard line in assessing the state of modern American journalism, “that great sucking vortex,” as he describes it in his book, which is subtitled, “How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News.”
“Fark” is a word with no meaning, but users still rejoice in their farkiness and are given to exclaim, “What the Fark is that?” at the outrage of the day.
Each day, as news breaks, the website's minute-to-minute updates are followed furious message board action.
Curtis is a mid-30s, self-described nobody from Kentucky. But the slash-and-burn headlines on his site suggest a fearless man at work. A Smattering:
- Pat Robertson Supports a Pro-gay, Pro-abortion, Twice-divorced Cross-dresser for President
- Want to Watch Porn in Class? Go to Ohio State
- What Do You Call 3,000 Lawyers in a Pakistani Jail?
