The problem with satire is too often ‘tis indistinguishable from realistic news.
It should be remembered that truth is often stranger than fiction.
When handguns were outlawed in D.C. in 1976, posters went up everywhere advertising a city snitch line “to report an illegal gun, and you do not have to give your name”. The poster depicted a revolver pointed straight at the reader, with two evil eyes glaring behind it.