The Day There Was No News

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  John Moltz 05/13/2008 07:40 PM 1 point

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  This theme was covered in a Bloom County strip long, long ago. Back afore your fancy "Internets" with their "embedded video" and such.
  
  (Not trying to ding the Onion, I well know that there are a finite number of funny things in the universe and two people can easily stumble up on the same idea. Heck, I really don't even have a problem with them jacking it.)
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  Josh Lowensohn 05/13/2008 08:08 PM 1 point

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  There was a play about this a few months back at the Berkeley Rep called Tragedy: A Tragedy. They managed to stretch this to 1.5 hours if you can believe it.
  
  http://berkeleyrep.org/season/0708/2117.asp
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  Stephen Lynch 05/13/2008 08:08 PM 1 point

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  I loved Bloom County. Why are all the women in this video blonde?
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  qDot 05/13/2008 08:51 PM 1 point

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  I'm pretty sure this was originally a gag by Armando Iannucci, as part of the 2006 Time Trumpet Series on the BBC:
  
  http://www.timetrumpet.co.uk/
  
  Not that I can actually back that up with a clip URL, of course, but it's a show worth pointing out nonetheless.
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  D.S. Black 05/13/2008 11:57 PM 1 point

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  Too late to catch this play in its run at Berkeley Rep about the main news of the day being... the sun goes down...possibly for good (or worse).
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0k4yC9_A0
  
  Will Eno's Tragedy: a tragedy is very much about something inchoate happening...or not!
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  dormin 05/14/2008 06:48 AM 1 point

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  A couple years back there was quite a bit of controversy in the Israeli art scene, when a well-known video artist (Doron Solomons) was accused of plagiarizing a work from his student (Tal Folkman). Both works also explore the 'no news' theme through edited silences.
  
  The student's work (dating back from 2003): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzK-Yx9AZzU
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