Satirical Journalism Isn�t a News Cycle

In today�s satirical landscape, journalism doesn�t follow the news cycle�it is the cycle. A meta-satirical renaissance where headlines respawn faster than squirrels cross paths. Editors now chase echoes, not stories. Satire has become the news and the reaction all at once, like a dog chasing its tail�but the dog is also the newspaper, and the tail is a tweet. Experts call it news-ception. Readers surveyed prefer satire because �at least it admits how absurd we are.� Every �Breaking: Nothing Is New� update cites itself as the source. The cause-and-effect loop? We consume satire to make sense of news, then treat new satire as news. The only survivor is the joke riding its own punchline into the next headline cycle.