When I was assigned for a class to mimic Don Asmussen’s Bad Reporter visual column, which plasters hilarious headlines on newspaper front pages, I knew right away I would have to do that to one of The Spectator’s front pages—just because I’m that big of a Spectator nerd.

After we finished the paper at 1:31 a.m. last night (record time for a 20-page paper so far this year), I took some time to tear apart the hard work of our designers using Photoshop. At left is the front page that will be hitting stands in a few hours, and below the fold is the “Bad Reporter” version.

Disclaimer: You’ll have to be familiar with Spectator coverage and university happenings to fully understand these headlines.

But (almost all) the real stories related to these fake headlines can be found in this week’s issue of The Spectator.

• Coverage of Elliott Bay Book Company’s move to Pioneer Square is here and here. Plus reader reactions are in print only in Campus Voice.
• The tale of the women’s basketball team’s seven-game losing streak is here. And references to championship material are, well, lots of places.
• Charles Garcia’s nickname contest can be read about here and is made fun of here.
• Pete Carroll’s arrival in Seattle to coach the Seahawks is covered in a column by Angelo Carosio here with a great photo from Spectator photo editor Braden VanDragt.
• Entering Seattle University’s journalism program and journicide (the act of trying to get in to professional journalism as a career) is not covered in this week’s issue, but I would recommend doing neither.

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Despite the serious problems our country is facing every day, it seems that President Obama is still able to laugh and poke some fun at himself and other members of his administration.

At a dinner for White House correspondents Obama gave a speech that was a bit more akin to a 20 minute stand-up comedy routine. He cracked jokes aimed at himself, Joe Biden, Timothy Geithner, Mayor Bloomberg,  and many, many others.

“I believe my next 100 days will be so successful I will be able to complete them in 72 days,” Obama joked. “And on the 73rd day, I will rest.”

Check behind the jump for the full 20 minute “speech.”

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Spectator News Editor Sara Bernert takes a look at the global pandemic that is currently unfolding. Are students at Seattle University worried about the Swine Flu?

This satirical news piece by Angelo Carosio and Sara Bernert

In my quest to prove how silly Twitter is, I have stumbled upon this link. Well, more accurately, my friend Andrew sent me this link. A quote:

everyone is making things that connect to twitter. the arduino environment makes it easy to interface hardware to the internet. this, plus a strong disdain for twitter, was all that was necessary to turn a joke into reality: a toilet that will post to twitter with every flush.

The sad part is that these toilet “tweets” are probably more interesting than %90 of Twitter.

Steven Colbert is a comedian and late night "news" show host. Image courtesy Comedy Central.

Despite the obvious mockery and satire present in every second of Steven Colbert’s late-night news show The Colbert Report, a Ohio State University study has found that lots of conservative people don’t seem to “get” the underlying joke that makes the show so hilarious.

Colbert is known for his hilarious interviews with guests and segments like “tip of the hat, wag of the finger” and “the word,” all of which parody similar elements on pundit stand-up shows like “The O’Reilly Factor.” Colbert makes the joke very obvious to viewers, and describes his character as a “well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.”

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Surveillance photos taken last night captured what appears to be a cute and adorable orange kitten brutally attacking an issue of the Spectator. The kitten first jumped over the paper and then began to chew on the edges. When approached, the kitten hid under the pages and remained there until it pounced on an unsuspecting foot.

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