With conglomeration and election-year doublethink running rampant, can you trust your news outlets to deliver the real stories? Stories from the heart and soul? Stories that really touch our lives? Stories from the people who lived them, not from soulless cogs in the giant, groaning machine of corporate mass media? Enter The World Star Gazette, "Superior News From a Source You Can Trust." Built of blog links and excerpts, the Gazette painstakingly reports on the economy ("Soul-Deadening Job Leads to Urinary Dysfunction" and "Woman Minimizes Indecent Picture Right Before Co-Worker Walks In"), politics and international affairs ("China's Urkel Actually Canadian"), travel ("Croatian Women Have Rounder Asses"), and health ("Yesterday I Ate Two Bananas and Much, Much More"). As with its ostensible inspiration, the Onion, the Gazette's pithy editorial comment is a perpetual pleasure. The kicker is that the blogs are real – and often as funny (though perhaps not always intentionally). Evidently, people volunteer to have their personal insights reprinted and skewered ("For God Knows What Reason, Thinking About Derek Jeter Quells Woman's Fears of Flying"). Or at least they don't seem to be resisting. Is it right to laugh at the sometimes frantic emotional outpourings of innocent people as they end relationships, search for religion, experiment with new low-carb salad dressings, and expound upon current events? I guess that's the risk you take when you sally forth into the blogosphere.
