El Mundo Today

El Mundo Today is an online satirical newspaper published in Spain. Its public launch was in January 2009, and it is currently active. The website adopts the style of the online press although the content of the publication is totally fictitious and humorous, using the format of the traditional press to create parody and satire.

El Mundo Today
"La actualidad del mañana" ("The today of tomorrow")
TypeSatirical online newspaper
FormatWebsite, radio, press, theatre, television
Founder(s)Xavi Puig and Kike García
Websiteelmundotoday.com

The success of the humorous portal has allowed its expansion in the form of collaborations in the written press, on the radio, the theatre and on television.

Origin

The project was created, written, and directed by Xavi Puig and Kike García.[1]

Controversy

The satirical and parodic character of the news has, in some cases, let to those referred to in the stories to ask for them to be removed, as they were not be aware of the humorous content of the page.[2]

El Mundo Today obtained a great media coverage after the Colombian news channel NTN24 broadcast as true some of its satirical information, even arriving to connect directly with its correspondent in Madrid.[3]

False Pitingo quotes

An article on 26 March 2015 titled Björk to retire due to fear of a Pitingo cover claimed that Björk had decided to retire because she feared that the flamenco soul singer Pitingo might produce a cover of her music (the joke being that Pitingo is notorious for producing covers of many famous artists).[4]

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2015-11-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/03/31/comunicacion/1270054635.html
  3. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/04/04/comunicacion/1365072049.html
  4. http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6517215/pitingo-el-mundo-today-satire-bjork-quotes
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