While I can understand the city's desire to quash publicity regarding their gross ineptitude from the taxpayers and voters they routinely bilk in regards to finding enough jurors who have never heard of the Baseline Killer and how the city let him go on a killing spree through ego and budget justification.  

Their complaint sounds more like they are pissed they no longer have a monopoly of feeding the news parrots.  That the Internet bypasses their collegial relationship with the media.  And they are none too happy about it.  There is too much freedom, too much out of control information in the public domain.  Time to do what they do best and quash, quash, quash!  You will keep quiet.

Is this a spoof?

Funny. They have a gag order and the first thing you do is post on your website. Just to funny. I will not have to watch the Marx bros to get my dose of ha ha's today.