Saturday Night Live last night lampooed internet comments sections on weblogs and websites where people comment and say whatever pops into their heads using “pen names.” Another case of satire saying something far more effectively than a zillion serious words:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.