Satire is dead

Staff suicide wipes the smiles off faces at "The Daily Show;" the suicide was a receptionist and former intern. (Courtesy Mediabistro.)

A Wisconsin radio station has sold naming rights to its newsroom to a local bank, so:

What listeners will hear on air is something like, "Now from the Amcore Bank News Center, here's WIBA's Jennifer Miller," said Jeff Tyler, vice president of Clear Channel Radio-Madison.

This is a trend which has legs. Imagine a church, for example, selling the naming rights to the pulpit. "Now from the Jack-in-the-Box Pulpit at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, here's Pastor Rick Munson with today's sermon." You think that won't happen? A RADIO STATION SOLD NAMING RIGHTS TO ITS NEWSROOM. The apocalypse is coming, and is indeed now here.

Update: GOOD FUCKING CHRIST, people, I WAS KIDDING. And yet:

Disney offers preachers prize money to mention "Narnia" in sermons

Kill me now.