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You might like my parody from 2003.

The Times It Ain’t A-Changing

The Times They are A-Changing
Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan
Satire by LonePalm

Come gather 'round Demos wherever you roam
And admit that the voters from round you have flown,
And accept it that soon you'll be standing alone,
If power to you is worth saving,
Then you'd better stop whining and start to atone,
For the Times it ain’t a-changing!

Come writers and critics you tired party hacks,
Please tell us the truth and don’t make up your facts.
The Old Grey Lady is showing some cracks,
Now it’s off to Fox that we’re switching.
The liberals now are reduced to a claque,
For the Times it ain’t a-changing!

Come Senators, Congressmen, knock off the attacks,
Don’t tax dividends, just to spend our greenbacks,
And vote on the judges you mean-mouthed macaques,
There's a protest outside and we’re FReeping.
Keep your tongue in your mouth, lay off the Bush whacks,
For the TimesTimes it ain’t a-changing!

Come mothers and fathers, escape the misrule,
You know education’s a giant cesspool.
Your sons and your daughters you need to home school,
Your options are rapidly shrinking.
Please get the lead out or they'll just sit and drool,
For the Times it ain’t a-changing!

The gauntlet is thrown, at you writers cliquish,
The choices to you must look hellish.
You best mend your ways or we’ll say your Kaddish,
Your sales are rapidly slipping.
And your paper now will be wrapping a fish,

For the Times It Ain’t A-Changing

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

Nice poem. You should have tried your hand in the limerick contest a few threads back. The NY Times hasn’t changed at all since they covered for another old Joe back in 1933:

Even then, Duranty dismissed more diligent writers’ reports that people were starving. “Conditions are bad, but there is no famine,” he wrote in a dispatch from Moscow in March of 1933 describing the “mess” of collectivization. “But – to put it brutally – you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

Some of Duranty’s editors criticized his reporting as tendentious, but The Times kept him as a correspondent until 1941. Since the 1980’s, the paper has been publicly acknowledging his failures. Ukrainian-American and other organizations have repeatedly called on the Pulitzer Prize Board to cancel Duranty’s prize and The Times to return it, mainly on the ground of his later failure to report the famine.

The Pulitzer board has twice declined to withdraw the award, most recently in November 2003, finding “no clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception” in the 1931 reporting that won the prize, and The Times does not have the award in its possession.