With your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!

Maybe I'm behind on this, but apparently The Onion and CNN.com have formed a partnership - one that strikes me as unnatural. On CNN's front page, about halfway down, just above World News, is a little box labeled "Breaking Onion Satire" and a link to this story. It's not even an external link - that story is within the cnn.com domain. It does, however, include this editor's note:

Editor's note: This may look like a real news story, but it's NOT. It is from
The Onion, a humor publication that calls itself "America's finest news source."
CNN may beg to differ, but we do enjoy a good laugh and hope you will enjoy a
weekly selection of their satire.

Oh, CNN, you crazy cats.
Likewise, when you read a story on The Onion's site, there's a box along the side with five or so headlines from CNN.com, as well as Slate (they're both under a "From Our News Partners" header). On Slate's web site, The Onion's headlines appear above those from both washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.
I keep forgetting that news satire - see The Daily Show - is so mainstream. Part of what I've always liked about it is that it seems subversive somehow, making fun of both the government and its supposed watchdogs. But I suppose that was a bit naive.
But bravo to CNN for having a sense of humor. Now if it would just keep Anna Nicole Smith out of the top headlines we'd be all set.