Is it a small feeling of powerlessness? Or is reality increasingly catching up with satire?

Of course, it is also a form of satire when a satirical website presents reality unchanged or describes that there is nothing to add to reality. At this point a sentence from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry comes to mind: “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to leave out.”

This is exactly what seems to be transferable to satire, when reality is so perfect for satire that there is nothing left to add and certainly nothing can be left out. This is what Germany's best-known satirical website Der Postillon said:

Finally, an exasperated editor suggests, “So what if we just write down our pathetic efforts?

But the Postillon is not alone here, its Austrian counterpart Die Tagespresse recently published UNCHANGED a real press release. Dear friends, this story is real. And unchanged:

The former federal spokeswoman for the Green Party, Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, is moving to the Lower Austrian gaming group Novomatic.

How do you outdo yourself?

The boulevard is also having a hard time. One of the most famous Austrian tabloids, which is available free of charge at the subway stations in Vienna, has taken a story that is already more than grotesque in itself, and has desperately wanted to make it even more grotesque, and in the process has overtaken itself. In Vienna it became known that the North Hospital had hired a “consciousness researcher” for 95,000 euros to clean “energy flows” in the area. “Energetic cleansing” is the description here that should be used to neutralize negative vibrations around the hospital.

That in itself is tabloid enough, but what happens when a tabloid processes this information again? Right... then we're suddenly dealing with voodoo!

Breathe.

Now I'm sitting here at my keyboard, moving my seat back 20 cm and taking a deep breath. Seriously, can anyone imagine what it's like to be a fact checker in times like these?


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