The 9th Annual Fake News Awards

Blazing Reader,

On Sunday, my son and I thoroughly enjoyed watching The 9th Annual Fake News Awards....

In this satirical 30-minute ceremony, Bent Krockman (played by James Corbett) hands out awards for the fakest stories, the fakest journalists and the fakest factoids of the previous year.

This annual production extracts the best-selling fiction from the so-called fact-checked news of 2025 by asking the question, "To what depths of digital depravity did the lying liars of the fake news media sink in the past twelve months?"

Find out by bookmarking the 9th Annual Fake News Award Ceremony and setting aside a half-hour with family and friends for some painful laughs at the deceptive propaganda of 2025.

—John C.A. Manley

P.S. Be sure to watch to the end for a nostalgic 1980s "Who's the Boss?" parody. And don't miss the "Johnny YouTuber’s Self-Censorship Bootcamp" commercial.

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.