Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift once said, "satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
Reviewing a theater adaptation of "Lucky You" for Broadway.com , Beau Higgins says Hiaasen's columns at The Miami Herald "have outraged just about everyone in South Florida, including major politicians, law officials and even his own bosses." In "Lucky You," his targets include South Florida developers, religious quacks, redneck militias, white liberals, Hooters and, yes, the newspaper business.
Research Hiaasen, his journalism and his novels. Based on that research and your reading of "Lucky You," write a documented feature article
How does "Lucky You" reflect the ethics of a working journalist? What media trends, practices, etc. does he satirize? What would you consider the moral center of his work?
Hold it down to 1,500 words.
"A Brief Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth Century Satire," lecture delivered by Ian Johnston in November 1998, in English 200, Section 3, Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~Johnstoi/Eng200/satire3.htm
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