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Utah youtuber Nick Shirley wouldn’t know real satire if it shot him in the face.
Private Eye
For many years, this newspaper published the humorous musings of Dan Sorensen, who wrote a column called “The Deep End.” Dan’s byline was simply D.P Sorensen. His father Parry was a well-beloved instructor in the University of Utah’s Journalism and Mass Communications Department, so it was an easy track for Dan to develop a yen for writing and reporting.
Same for his brother Mike, who covered sports for the Deseret News . Dan, however, did more than news and used his incredible talent to make the seemingly unbelievable, very believable.
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