Editor's Note: Sounds like a strange title. From a tip from Larry Ferlazzo, I learned of this site which allows you to create fake news from templates like CNN, etc.
I thought it might be useful for classroom work. (Or maybe to honor (or kid) a colleague.
With News Jack, all you have to do is paste the url address of any website and you’re immediately given the tools to easily transform its homepage into looking however you want it to look. Without having to register, you can make the New York Times highlight photos and articles of your great basketball-playing ability; have CNN focus on covering what was happening in 1776, or The Huffington Post reporting on the first Thanksgiving dinner. You can easily grab images off the web or your computer to insert, as well as text. You can then click “publish” and you’re given the url address to your creation so it can be shared with the world.
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