By Dan Nephin
Associated Press
Published on 4/6/2004
Excerpt:
“When you engage in humor or satire, the challenge that a newspaper … faces is one of interpretation. The general idea is that people who are doing an April Fool’s joke expect that people on whom it’s played will understand the prankster’s position,” said Aly Colón, an ethics-group leader at The Poynter Institute, the journalism research and education center in St. Petersburg, Fla. “That’s where a disconnect can take place.”
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