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Good parodists, in my belief, should remain relevant in their subject matter.  While there’ll always be time-honored conceptions for folks to fall back on for gags (ex.: politicians are dumb, celebrities are dumber, the American populance is dumbest), what seperates the weak from the strong in the field of humor-mongering is an ability to reflect the changing world.

Enter The Onion, the parody newspaper that almost never misses a beat in it’s fake coverage. Now that the current recession has laid waste to the print industry, we learn that even the parody paper has had to make certain concessions. The consequences have been absolutely positively hilarious.

 Taking a laugh at Old Media in it’s darkest hour is ballsy and ought to be applauded, especially after having to swallow a fat slice of reality themselves.