Dallas-Fort Worth Fox Affiliate Delivers Deadpan Satire of Social Media

Satirizing social media has quickly become a shopworn cliche, but Dallas-Fort Worth’s KDFW Fox 4 has posted a brilliant example that sums up the subject perfectly. Anchor Clarice Tinsley begins her “report” on a shooting at City Hall by tossing to reporter Matt Grubs, who’s “live on the scene, tweeting details to his 87 followers.”

The piece goes on to lampoon Facebook, FourSquare, Skype, and something called MySpace (???), while also satirizing the dinosaur media’s often-clunky attempts to integrate the buzzy platforms. (H/T The Political Carnival)

The clip pretty much speaks for itself. My personal favorite is Grubs’ update, later in the report, where he notes an uptick to his follower count amid the gunfire. Runner-up goes to Sofia Reza‘s update (from a nearby Starbuck’s) that skewers the often dissonant combination of local news copy writing and enthusiastic TV reporter inflection. From Fox 4 DFW:

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