@FakeAPStylebook Duo Take Aim at Content Farms

Chicago based trade reporter Matt Wilson has always enjoyed goofing on the side. The former newspaper man contributes to @FakeAPStylebook, runs the concurrent Twitter feed @FakeeEtiquette and has written for other parody destinations like Cracked.com.

Now, together with fellow Fake AP Stylebook “bureau chief” Ken Lowery, he has launched a straight-faced Tumblr parody of content farms like Demand Media and Associated Content. “The Content Farm” has been up and running since late last month, and among our favorite deadpan entries so far is the article “How to Sob Uncontrollably.”

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