Le Gorafi

Le Gorafi (anagram of Le Figaro) is a site of news satire, created in May 2012 during the French presidential campaign in the style of The Onion, a satirical newspaper of fake information.[1] It has also been compared with Infos du Monde[2] and L'Examineur.

Not to be confused with Le Figaro.
Le Gorafi
Type of site
Pure player
Available inFrench
Created byPablo Mira
Sébastien Liebus
URLwww.legorafi.fr
CommercialNo
Launched2012
Current statusOnline

Since 2014, the site is also offered in a televisual form on channel Canal+ as a humoristic segment on the program Le Grand Journal. The identity of the creators was unknown[3] until January 2014, when the two creators, Pablo Mira and Sébastien Liebus, became known in the media.

History

The articles of Le Gorafi comment real or imaginary events in a satirical and offbeat way, taking again most of the press codes.[4] Le Gorafi was first an element on Twitter that began in February 2012, during the French presidential campaign, before being transformed as a blog in May, and then becoming in September 2012 a website.[4][5] Since then, many of its articles were relayed in the press, especially the one stating about a supposed new challenge undertaken by Felix Baumgartner who would have decided to cross alone the entire region of Île-de-France taking the RER B.[1]

The site presents the newspaper as dating of 1826, from a scission after a conflict of interest at the redaction of Le Figaro and named Le Gorafi due to the dyslexia of its founder Jean-René Buissière. The contents are compared to the "Page Pute" of Brain Magazine, or other humoristic and satirical sites like Bilboquet Magazine[6][7] and L'Humour de droite, which reacts on Twitter and Facebook. Le Gorafi claims more than 400,000 viewers in February 2013[5] and regularly more than 900,000 viewers per month stated by Les Inrocks.[2]

In January 2014, the book L'année du Gorafi 2013 was released at the Éditions Denoël. In November of that year, the following book titled L'année du Gorafi 2 was released, and the creators were invited at the radio program of media criticism L'Instant M broadcast on France Inter for 15 minutes.[8]

On August 31, 2015 in the morning, Le Gorafi created a "fake bad buzz" posting a temporary redirection with a message "Le Gorafi, c'est fini, merci de votre fidélité" ("Le Gorafi, it's over, thank you for your fidelity").[9] It was in fact an "advertising attempt for its new platform".[10]

Television

Le Grand Journal

In spring 2014, Le Gorafi presents a chronicle in Le Grand Journal, twice or three times a week, often on Monday, Wednesday or Friday. The programs are based on one or two chronicles developed around one theme for each. The first theme is the object of the treatment of twisted news presented in a satirical tone by one of the two co-founders Pablo Mira, of a length between two and four minutes. He sometimes talks about a second subject, which is expanded of an enquiry shown as a reportage with video pictures, illustrated by micro-sidewalks or expert advice.

L'année du Gorafi

In January 2016, Le Gorafi presents a parodical program retrospective of the news from the previous year. Presented by Pablo Mira, the program is a caricature of the news broadcasting from a continuous news channel, alternating fake reportages and television stage launches.

Bibliography
  • Jean-François Buissière (Pablo Mira, Sébastien Liebus) (2014). Éditions Denoël (ed.). L'année du Gorafi 2013 (in French). p. 240. ISBN 9782207117163. Journal d'un mythomane, volume 2.

See also

References
  1. Agence France-Presse (October 17, 2012). "Un défi à Felix Baumgartner de prendre le RER fait un tabac sur internet". Le Point (in French).
  2. David Doucet (June 11, 2013). "Le Gorafi, le faux site d'info qui cartonne". Les Inrocks (in French).
  3. "Trop souriant dans le métro, il finit en garde à vue : Gare au Gorafi". L'Indépendant (in French). November 8, 2012.
  4. "Les sites parodiques comme le Gorafi sont-ils si inoffensifs ?". 20 minutes (in French). February 20, 2013.
  5. Caroline Besse (April 12, 2013). "Le Gorafi, site d'info potache parfois pris au sérieux". Télérama (in French).
  6. Alain Gerlache (June 28, 2013). "MédiaTIC : The Onion, Le Gorafi, satire de partout sur le web" (in French). RTBF. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
  7. Christophe Greuet (July 12, 2013). "Le Gorafi, Veux Jidéo, AFPresque… : les sites d'"infaux" parodiques font un carton sur le net". Midi Libre (in French).
  8. "Le Gorafi : l'esprit peut-il rester fidèle à la lettre ?" (in French). France Inter. November 21, 2014.
  9. "La fermeture du Gorafi était bien un canular". 20 minutes (in French). September 1, 2015.
  10. Nicolas Vanderbiest (August 31, 2015). "" Le Gorafi, c'est fini " ? : quand la presse se gave sur du vent". Rue 89 (in French). Retrieved September 1, 2015.
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