I thought it was for real until I came to this:
“..... I had to stop reading it. It’s incredibly hard to evade reality when you’re reading that site. Even for us journalists.”
“Even for us journalists”?....Very good! :-)
Satire is truth stretched a little bit!
In the bazaro world we live in today it’s getting more difficult to tell which is which. We need to be really careful with satire any more because I have seen too many making comments based on articles which were satire not realizing. Makes them not look credible.