Tony Hung keyed in to exactly what’s happening as a result of the Hollywood Writers Strike that started early this week in his post in Deep Jive Interests titled Will Hollywood Strike Give Birth To An New “Daily Show”?:

"…One wonders what will come out of *this* strike if it gets prolonged.  In a delicious bit of irony, for example, one wonders now that the media landscape has fractured into both online and off line means, whether or not there will be other online alternatives that will necessarily evolve to meet the demand for entertainment.

Specifically “late night” entertainment as the late night talk shows has been the first casualties of this strike.

The Wall Street Journal reports that this may in fact be happening.  23/7 — found at 236.com — is a site which satirizes and parodies the news stories of the day with a decided political slant, which coincidentally was recently launched in the wake of the writers strike.  Something like the Daily Show, actually.

Mat Ingram reports that its difficult to be funny, which, I think is his own polite way of saying that its a bit _un_funny.  Irrespective of what your opinions of humour might be — and if 236.com is humorous — I think that sites like 237.com are probably going to start popping up with increasing regularity as the strike continues."

Note: I changed Tony’s post to say “236.com” instead of “237.com because that is what he meant, 237.com does not resolve to a working website.

I would think that sites like 236.com and www.Newsgroper.com are positioned to take advantage of the demand for “fake news” that more, new media entertainment, especially if this strike goes on for a while. 

Both Newsgroper.com and 236.com are very similar, except Newsgroper.com gives you points of view by fake public figures while 236.com is just fake news.