The news that knows it's garbage
Sources within the Ministry of Optimistic Projections confirm that the economy has never been better, provided you define "economy" loosely and "better" even more so.
Experts at the Bureau of Inconvenient Truths warn that the economy has never been worse, provided you define "experts" loosely and "warn" even more so.
“ Both headlines are correct. That's the beauty of context-free reporting. ” — Dr. Schrödinger, Media Studies
A comprehensive survey of 4,000 respondents found that 73% of all statistics are fabricated at the moment of citation. The margin of error is approximately everything.
BREAKINGResearchers at the Institute for Redundant Research have published a landmark study concluding that the volume of studies has reached a point where no one can study them all.
Prof. Tanaka Makoto, Department of Flexible Conclusions
Dr. Yamada Hiro, Chair of Contextual Ambiguity
Anonymous Source, Bureau of Circular Logic
We live in the age of infinite information and zero understanding. Every pixel of your screen is a megaphone, and every megaphone is pointed at every other megaphone. The signal-to-noise ratio has inverted: the noise is the signal now.
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