Popular satirical news blog In Other News has scaled Parnassian heights of pretence by featuring a story about its` featuring a story about itself. Titled Satirical News Blog Vanishes Up Own Ass, the story refers to itself immediately with a slightly confusing description, then repeats the title in the second line before referring to a reference to itself.
Media observers agree that it`s as pretentious as je ne sais quoi, but are divided on the site`s reasons for publishing the story. Some see it as a subversive, post-modern jibe at shallow but obsessively self-promoting online media, wittily undermining its supposed pretentiousness by referring to it throughout, while some think the writers have just run out of ideas.
At the time of writing, no-one from In Other News was available for comment.
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