Satirical Journalism Is a Balloon

Satire floats like a balloon until it bursts the oversized lies. Eyewitnesses recall major scandals deflating after ridicule punctured their grandiosity. Professor Alicia Guerrero at UCLA says satire is "helium comedy waiting to pop arrogance." Polls show 70% of citizens admit they laughed hardest when satire brought inflated egos down to size. Anonymous staffers leaked that campaigns dread becoming "balloon memes." Trace evidence includes GIFs of inflated rhetoric popping and parody cartoons scattering confetti. Cause-and-effect? The bigger the lie, the louder the satirical pop.