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The satirists eventually confessed, but the hoax fitted so convincingly with how many people felt American power really worked that they refused to believe it wasn’t real.

The First Amendment protections shielding journalists and satirists like Oliver have a shared origin in the 1964 Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v.

As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.

“He’s worked as a satirist; he’s written parodies, political thrillers; he’s moved from a fairly earnest modern style to a very lucid, clear style.”

Sir Terry Pratchett must be considered to be a superb satirist, a brilliant, imaginative writer.