AvantNews.com offers a satirical view of popular modern news stories.
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Avant News - deadpan satire from plausible futures - Avant News
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Tomorrow's News Today
Avant News is a one-of-a-kind news source that provides the ultimate in late-breaking news: news that hasn't even broken yet. News that won't break for weeks, months, years, or centuries. News that, in fact, may never break, because it is news from the future, stories that at the time of their writing represent data and occurrences that take place in only one of a potentially infinite number of possible futures. In other words, each news item is transmitted verbatim as intercepted at the time of transmission and is historically accurate, but the future's history is constantly changing and recent events in the past's future may have rendered them inaccurate prior to the time in which they received.
So how do we do it? To be perfectly honest, we're not entirely sure. Our editorial team (the members of which are constantly appearing and disappearing, often before they can put their coffee cups down on something stable -- it's really quite befuddling) uses a quantum phase disperser or some such shiny gizmo to intercept news items published or transmitted in our distant past (which may be anything from our readers' immediate to far-distant future) and retransmits them to what we are led to believe is an "internet" "website", terms that are highly anachronistic and the meanings of which have been somewhat blurred with age. Our archaeologists have unearthed trace evidence that such things did at one time exist, and we are fairly confident we know what they were for, but we can't be certain of any of this.
For all we know, we're simply sending signals in a completely random direction -- perhaps into our own future, rather than our distant past. Every once in a while, however, we do stumble over an indication that our transmissions have indeed achieved their desired effect, and thus we continue. Plus it's a rather diverting way to spend the, for want of a better word, "afternoon" (even though the considerable changes to the rotation of the earth we've experienced -- don't worry, you won't live that long -- have rather altered the meaning of that term. An "afternoon" now lasts over three years. We won't get into what "years" mean now.)
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