Online Publisher to Launch College News Satire Site

January 29 2004--College students are increasingly interested in news and politics, and the news they choose is increasingly of a satirical kind, say two recently released reports.

With satirical news available on TV (The Daily Show), in print (The Onion), and online (BrokenNewz.com), there are plenty of ways for students to satisfy their urge for satire.

Enter Dr. Preston Coleman, a fired professor with plenty of free time on his hands, and RealStupidNews.com, the news satire site he created that has been called "the Georgia Onion."

RealStupidNews combines daily satirical news stories with links to the web's finest online news sources. It quickly established itself among news junkies and now reaches readers in over 80 countries and on hundreds of campuses worldwide.

"Before we knew it, we were getting popular with college students all over the place," Coleman explains, "but we couldn't really cater to them without losing some of our core audience."

So the unemployed professor decided to leave well enough alone at RealStupidNews and start a brand new college-oriented publication, RightOnTimes.com, which may well be the first national news satire site written exclusively by and for college students.

RightOnTimes.com will launch on April 1 using a format similar to its predecessor. Along with humorous news stories penned by students, the site features links to some of the nation's best online newspapers, magazines, and news sites as well as links to leading college newspapers from around the country.

To coax notoriously busy college students into writing news satire, cash prizes of up to $250 are being offered in a news satire writing contest, the winners to be published in the first edition of RightOnTimes.com.

Contest rules are available by clicking on "Contest" at either site, or you can go directly to www.realstupidnews.com/contest.html.

The winners will be announced at RightOnTimes.com and at collegehumor.com.


Dr. Preston Coleman is an author and award-winning scholar who holds advanced degrees in journalism (University of Georgia) and mass media (University of Iowa.) He has taught at the University of Georgia, the University of Iowa, and Kennesaw State University.




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