It used to be so that you could tell satire from real news. It used to be entertaining to read those stories that were a bit too weird, a bit too good to be true. Nowadays you can't tell anymore, the world has gone insane.
Critical reading isn't a bad skill. It has become quite essential in these days of false news. Being able to question whether something you read is true should be basic skill for all of us. But when the line between real things and satire gets to the point when you read something completely ridiculous and you have to doubt whether it's actually true it's a completely different thing.
Sometimes it's not even close. The things in the news, the real news are so over the top sometimes that no satire writer would ever come up with something that ridiculous, it just wouldn't be plausible enough.