MetaFilter posts tagged with theonion and onion

It Fish Time!

vivelame — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:07:19 -0800

In rather unsettling news, it appears that a chinese corporation bought one of America's most reliable news sources. For now, the editorial line doesn't seem to have changed, but will it last?

Gap Unveils New 'For Kids By Kids' Clothing Line

445supermag — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:17:28 -0800

When life imitates Simpsons (i.e. skittlebrau), it's generally funny. With the Onion, not so much.

"If the news goes down too easily, it can't be good for you."

amyms — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:58:01 -0800

Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion our most intelligent newspaper?: "While other newspapers desperately add gardening sections, ask readers to share their favorite bratwurst recipes, or throw their staffers to ravenous packs of bloggers for online question-and-answer sessions, The Onion has focused on reporting the news. The fake news, sure, but still the news. It doesn’t ask readers to post their comments at the end of stories, allow them to rate stories on a scale of one to five, or encourage citizen-satire. It makes no effort to convince readers that it really does understand their needs and exists only to serve them. The Onion’s journalists concentrate on writing stories and then getting them out there in a variety of formats, and this relatively old-fashioned approach to newspapering has been tremendously successful." The article is based on the premises of the late media critic Neil Postman, especially from his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age Of Show Business."

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence

Afroblanco — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:50:06 -0800

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence. Founding Fathers, Patriots, Mr. T. Honored.

Making New Fake News

Robot Johnny — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:46:17 -0800

How the Onion Got a Facelift , and in the process offered their full news archives from 1996 to the present available online for free. The Onion A.V. Club also finds a new home.

Not the onion, but may cause tears

soyjoy — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:27:57 -0800

The Onion keeps getting funnier In this week's edition, Antonin Scalia bans the media from covering his acceptance of a free-speech award, and also tells Americans "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires." Haw-haw! Get it? Oh, wait a second...

solistrato — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:37:19 -0800

"Hello. I'm Christopher Walken. If my video, Weapon of Choice, featuring the Fat Boy Slims, does not take at least seven of the nine moon men, I will personally journey to each of the voters' homes and I will ask them to explain themselves. Then I will slice off extremities until they suffer as I will suffer if my dance moves are thus summarily dismissed." Pause. "I could really go for a hot dog."

solistrato — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:17:32 -0800

The Onion returns! Now, if only they'll print more Smoove B...

ab'd al'Hazred — Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:50:28 -0800

Am I incorrect, or is this the same as last year? All of these articles seem familiar to me, but I could not find them in the archives.

sugarfish — Wed, 17 May 2000 12:13:54 -0800

Kid Rock starves to death-- Napster to blame. Now I understand why Metallica is so angry.

cmeck33 — Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:46:40 -0800

U.S. population stands at 13,462 With the April 1 deadline for returning Census 2000 forms finally passed, the Bureau of the Census announced Monday that the U.S. population stands at 13,462. "We at the Census Bureau are shocked by the incredible decrease in the population that apparently took place in the 10 years since the last Census in 1990," Census Bureau director Kenneth Prewitt said. "A 1999 projection estimated the U.S. population at 274 million and set the annual growth rate at .95 percent. Yet from this latest Census count, we find that this projection overestimates the population by a multiple of 20,000."

sandor — Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:55:53 -0800

The Simpsons' Mike Scully is interviewed in this week's Onion. He briefly addresses the whole a.t.s. I-hate-the-show-but-I-keep-watching-anyway syndrome, along with the symbolism of the Comic Book Guy. It was amusing until I realized that I'm guilty of the exact same attitude when it comes to The Onion each week. Is it me, or is the paper just not as funny as it used to be?