<i>The Onion</i> Taken Seriously

Wired News ^ | April 14, 2004 | Daniel Terdiman

[JoeGar]

The article in the Beijing Evening News told a shocking story of American hubris: Congress was behaving like a petulant baseball team and threatening to bolt Washington, D.C., unless it got a new, modern Capitol building, complete with retractable roof.

[My2Cents]

Doesn't the Onion pretty much print Kerry campaign press releases without editing?

[Poohbah]

The problem with doing satire in this day and age is that by the time you've thought of something satirically funny...someone's actually DONE it.

[kaktuskid]

"The CIA has announced that they acquired a videotape showing al-Qaida members making phone solicitations for vacation home rentals, long-distance telephone service, magazine subscriptions and other products."

Have'nt you ever gotten a call offering to "Change your long distance service, you INFIDEL SON OF A JEWISH PIG!!!!"

[Poohbah]

Have'nt you ever gotten a call offering to "Change your long distance service, you INFIDEL SON OF A JEWISH PIG!!!!"

Gee, I thought I was the only guy getting those calls...

[Henchster]

"As a true journalist, you have to be skeptical even about stories you see on the front page of The New York Times."

Editor's desk!

"As a true journalist, you have to be especially skeptical even about stories you see on the front page of The New York Times."

There, that's better.

[discostu]

Well the Onion says they don't want to print anything true because they don't want to hurt their credibility. So I think that would make Kerry campaign press releases fair game.

[socal_parrot]

I stopped visiting The Onion when they told Free Republic to stop the posting or excerpting of their content on this site.

[Seruzawa]

"That's what we do at The Onion," she laughs. "We do print lies to make money."

So does the NYT.

[GreyFriar]

The sad thing is that, like many of Rush Limbaugh's satires of leftist positions, the Onion's stories often end up becoming proposed programs or positions of the Democraptic Party a couple of years later.