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The Onion

January 13, 2023

For the building sometimes nicknamed "The Onion", see City Hall, London (Southwark).

The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin.[1] The Onion began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. In 2013, The Onion ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency.[2][3]

The Onion
TypeSatirical newspaper
FormatWebsite
Owner(s)G/O Media
Founder(s)Tim Keck
Christopher Johnson
EditorChad Nackers
FoundedAugust 29, 1988; 34 years ago (1988-08-29)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.[1]
Ceased publication2013 (print)
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Websitewww.theonion.com

The Onion's articles cover current events, both real and fictional, parodying the tone and format of traditional news organizations with stories, editorials, and man-on-the-street interviews using a traditional news website layout and an editorial voice modeled after that of the Associated Press. The publication's humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday events as newsworthy, surreal, or alarming, such as "Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness".[4] In 1999, comedian Bob Odenkirk praised the publication as "the best comedy writing in the country".[5]

The Onion also runs The A.V. Club, an entertainment and pop culture publication founded in 1993 that contains interviews and reviews of newly released media and other weekly features. The Onion previously ran ClickHole, a satirical website founded in 2014 which parodies clickbait websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy, before ClickHole was acquired by Cards Against Humanity in February 2020.[6][7]

History

Publication's name

"People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from", said former President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews; "and, when I recently asked (co-founder) Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me... Literally that his uncle said he should call it The Onion when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich. They had literally just cut up the onion and put it on bread." According to former editorial manager, Chet Clem, their food budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white bread and onions. This account was disputed by an editor of The Onion, Cole Bolton, during an event at the University of Chicago. Bolton called Mills's account "the dumbest explanation" and asserted that it is likely wrong. According to Bolton, the most plausible explanation is that The Onion was mocking a campus newsletter called The Union.[8][9][10]

Madison (1988–2001)

Conceived by University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson, The Onion was founded as a weekly print newspaper for satirical news in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin, by Keck and Johnson with their friends Scott Dikkers as cartoonist and Peter Haise as publisher.[11][12] In 1989, Keck and Johnson sold the paper to Dikkers and Haise for $16,000[13][11][12] ($19,000 according to some sources).[14][15] After the sale, Keck and Johnson separately became publishers of similar alternative weeklies: Keck of The Stranger in Seattle, Washington, and Johnson of the Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[16][17][18] Haise left The Onion after 15 years and eventually opened a custom framing shop in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.[19] Dikkers, who originally joined the staff as a cartoonist, said he was de facto editor by the third issue and became The Onion's longest-serving editor in chief (1988–1999, 2005–2008).[20]

In its earlier years, The Onion was successful in a number of university locations (e.g., University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). The publication primarily consisted of a mix of Dikkers's cartoons, Spy magazine-like satire, and short fiction. The bottom three inches were reserved as ad space for coupons that were typically purchased by local, student-centered or inexpensive establishments, such as eateries and video rental stores.[18][21]

The June 16, 1993, issue of The Daily Iowan ran a profile of Dikkers, in which it stated that "Dikkers still lives in Madison, spending about five hours a week on Jim's Journal and the rest of the time as co-owner of a satirical newspaper called The Onion".[22]

In a 1994 interview with U. Magazine, Dikkers discussed Onion, Inc.'s plans to create a new sketch comedy show called The Comedy Castaways, which they were in the process of pitching to NBC, Fox, and HBO. With a pilot and the first two episodes in post-production, Dikkers said, "I think what sets us apart is we've intentionally formed a tightly knit group of funny performers. A lot of these other shows are created by 50-year-olds, written by 40-year-olds and performed by 35-year-olds".[23]

In the spring of 1996, Ben Karlin and Dikkers collaborated with Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey to create four short Onion news segments for The Dana Carvey Show. Smigel said that after being introduced to The Onion by Bob Odenkirk a year earlier, "it jumped out at me as something completely original and great, and I really wanted to use it on the show". Although four fake news segments anchored by Stephen Colbert were recorded, only one of the segments actually aired.[24][25]

In 1996, when it was still only a print newspaper, an Onion article titled "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia" was widely disseminated online without attribution,[26] spurring the creation of The Onion's official website (theonion.com) so they could properly claim credit for content that was being passed around online forums such as Usenet and various mailing lists.[27] The publication received expanded global recognition as a result of the website as well.[28][29][30] In a 2002 interview, then-editor in chief Rob Siegel said,[31] "If you look at the breakdown of people who read The Onion online, it's like Microsoft, Dell Computers, the Department of Justice and then, like, University of Wisconsin. So it's a combination of students and pretty impressive people. I get the feeling that the print version is read by people hanging out in bars".[3][29][30]

In the fall of 1996, Ben Karlin, who had been a writer/editor for the publication since graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1993, moved to Los Angeles and joined other former Onion staff members to create a pilot for a news parody titled Deadline: Now for the Fox Network. While the 15-minute pilot, which was completed in 1997, was never picked up as a series for production, its creation led to steady writing work for Karlin and other former Onion staffers, such as writing some episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast on the Cartoon Network. In the wake of Karlin's departure, Siegel[32] assumed the publication's duties as editor of the publication.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]

Sometime after The Onion appeared online in 1996, the publication was threatened with a lawsuit from Janet Jackson because of the article "Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson". "We were very nearly sued out of existence by Janet Jackson", said Siegel, adding that in the past he was forbidden to talk about the legal matter and the celebrity involved.[39][40]

On January 27, 1998, MTV premiered Virtual Bill, a collaboration between writers of The Onion and 3-D character studio Protozoa. The titular "Virtual Bill" character was a quasi-realistic CGI version of Bill Clinton created by studio Protozoa who introduced music videos and told jokes written by the staff of The Onion. The voice of Virtual Bill was provided by then editor Dikkers. After the initial premiere, Virtual Bill returned to MTV on December 17, 1998, with another TV special and an interactive web special produced by Pulse that ported the 3D data into a web compatible format using Pulse's proprietary plug-in.[41][42][43][44][45]

In January 1999, when Jon Stewart became the host of The Daily Show he tapped former Onion writer/editor Karlin to be head writer of the newly restructured show. "He had heard about this group of Onion people in L.A. and, in a weird way, I was the de facto ringleader of our group in L.A. I came to New York. Jon and I connected. It was kind of like a slightly awkward, but successful, first date. When I got back to Los Angeles, they offered me the head writer job".[33][34][35][36][37]

From March 3–7, 1999, writers and editors of The Onion attended U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado in part to promote the forthcoming Our Dumb Century anthology and were met with effusive praise for their work from notable comedians such as Conan O'Brien, Dave Foley and Dave Thomas as well as cartoonist Peter Bagge and musician Andy Prieboy.[28][46]

On March 18, 1999, The Onion's website won its first Webby Award in the category of "Humor".[47][48]

On March 23, 1999, The Onion's first fully original book, Our Dumb Century was released. The book featured mocked-up newspaper front pages from the entire 20th century, presented under the premise that the publication had been continuously in print since before 1900.[49][50][51] In the wake of the book's success, networks such as HBO and NBC were in talks to bring The Onion to TV with a special based on Our Dumb Century.[18]

Despite nearly two years of work spent on conceiving and producing Our Dumb Century, the writers only received bonuses of a few thousand dollars[citation needed], despite the fact that the two-book publishing deal netted The Onion $450,000.[18][49][50][51]

In April 2000, DreamWorks Studios optioned two stories from the satirical newspaper, "Canadian Girlfriend Unsubstantiated"—which was to be written by former Onion editor and writer Rich Dahm—and "Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell" with an eye toward producing the latter as a family comedy. "The story is so dark and hate filled—I was shocked", said head writer Todd Hanson. "It's like an Onion joke. I mean, what are they going to do? Add a sickly-but-adorable moppet?" added editor Robert Siegel. DreamWorks planned for the finished "Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell" to involve animation as well as musical singalongs.[52][53][54][55]

In June 2000, writers and editors of The Onion participated in Comedy Central panel discussion moderated by Jeff Greenfield titled "The State of The Onion" during the "Toyota Comedy Festival 2000".[56][57]

In July 2000, The Onion's editor Robert Siegel was named one of People magazine's most eligible bachelors. "If a person is beautiful on the inside", Siegel said, "looks don't really matter".[31][58]

New York City (2001–2012)

Beginning in the fall of 2000 to early 2001, the company relocated its editorial offices from Madison, Wisconsin, to a renovated warehouse in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan (New York City) to raise The Onion's profile, expand the publication from being simply a humor newspaper into a full production company, as well as develop editorial content in other media—including books, television and movies—and engage more directly with Internet companies as far as advertising revenue goes.[59][60][61][62][63][64]

In February 2001, Miramax Films head Harvey Weinstein announced they had reached a first look agreement to develop scripts and features with The Onion. "As lifelong New Yorkers, we're proud to welcome The Onion to our city with this first-look deal", said Harvey Weinstein. "With their witty, sophisticated humor, they will undoubtedly soon be the toast of the town", Weinstein added.[65][66][67]

On September 27, 2001, The Onion debuted its New York City print edition with an issue focused on the September 11 attacks. The popularity, and critical praise, of the issue resulted in The Onion's website's online traffic nearly doubling in the weeks following the attacks.[68][69]

In November 2002, a humorous op-ed piece in The Onion that was satirically bylined by filmmaker Michael Bay titled "Those Chechen Rebels Stole My Idea"[70] was removed from the site without explanation. Entertainment industry trade magazine Variety theorized, "It's not clear if Bay—a frequent object of The Onion's satire—requested the move."[70][71][72][73]

In 2003, The Onion was purchased by David Schafer, who had previously managed the $2.5 billion investment fund, from previous long time owners Peter Haise and Scott Dikkers. The sale was a process that had been in the works since July 2001 and according to a memo from then owner Haise, "[Schafer] understands our quirky company and knows that we need some time to get to a higher level of operations and sales."[69] In a 2003 CNN profile of The Onion, Schafer stated with regards to the company and the purchase, "The Onion's strong point was never accounting, financial management, or business. Buying it was a bit of a shot in the dark, but we felt we could get a handle on it." Also in 2003, editor Robert Siegel quit his day-to-day role at The Onion[39] to focus on writing screenplays full-time.[74][75] "After the 14,000th headline I felt the itch to use a different part of my brain", he said. "You can go mad thinking in headline form." In the wake of his departure, long time staff writer Carol Kolb[76] assumed the publication's duties as editor of the publication.[14][55][74][75][76][77][78][79]

In 2005, The Onion moved its New York City offices from its initial Chelsea location to downtown on Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan (New York City).[80]

In 2006, The Onion had reached a print circulation of 549,000; it was distributed for free in several cities.[81] The same year, it launched a YouTube channel, which was structured as a parody of modern American television news programs.[82] In June 2006, it was also announced that Siegel had been tapped by Miramax Films to write the screenplay for a comedy titled "Homeland Insecurity" which was slated to be about a pair of Arab-Americans who are mistaken for terrorists while traveling to Texas.[83] Additionally, rumors of a potential sale of The Onion to media conglomerate Viacom began appearing in various news outlets during July 2006 with The New York Times: DealBook expanding on the discussion by stating, "While a source tells DealBook that such a deal has indeed been discussed, it is in very early stages and may never happen."[82][83][84][85][86][87][88]

In April 2007, The Onion launched the Onion News Network, a parody of "the visual style and breathless reporting of 24-hour cable news networks like CNN."[89]

In 2008 Carol Kolb became the head writer of the Onion News Network with the role of the publication's editor being taken over by writer Joe Randazzo. Randazzo first became a writer for The Onion in 2006 and—in his role as an editor—became the first editor of the publication that had no connection to The Onion during the publication's initial Madison, Wisconsin, era.[11][90][91][92][93]

In April 2009, The Onion was awarded a 2008 Peabody Award noting that the publication provides "...ersatz news that has a worrisome ring of truth."[94][95]

In November 2009, The Onion released Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude From America's Finest News Source which was notable in not only compiling dozens of front pages from the publication's history as a news parody but also showcasing front pages from the publication's early, more casual campus humor focused era during the 1980s when the publication featured headlines such as, "Depressed? Try Liposuction on that Pesky Head."[96]

In July 2009, various news outlets began reporting rumors of an impending sale of The Onion with further details of the sale to be made on Monday, July 20, 2009.[97][98] The purported sale was revealed as fictional Publisher Emeritus T. Herman Zweibel stating he'd sold the publication to a Chinese company—Yu Wan Mei Corporation—resulting in a week-long series of Chinese-related articles and features throughout the publication's website and print editions.[99][100] On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, the publication's editor (Joe Randazzo) clarified the issue on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, stating: "I'm sure there are many Chinese conglomerates out there that would love to buy The Onion. We are, in fact, still a solvent independently owned American company."[101]

In August 2011, The Onion's website began testing a paywall model, requiring a $2.95 monthly/$29.95 annual charge from non-U.S. visitors who wish to read more than about five stories within 30 days. "We are testing a meter internationally as readers in those markets are already used to paying directly for some (other) content, particularly in the UK where we have many readers", said the company's CTO Michael Greer.[102][103][104]

In September 2011, it was announced that The Onion would move its entire editorial operation to Chicago by the summer of 2012. The news of the move left many of the writers—who moved with the publication from Madison to New York City in 2000—"blindsided", putting them in a position to decide whether to uproot themselves from New York City and follow the publication to Chicago, which was already home to the company's corporate headquarters. At a comedy show on September 27, 2011, then editor Joe Randazzo announced that he would not be joining the staff in Chicago.[105][106][107][108][109][110]

Chicago (2012–present)

With the publication's core editorial staff now based in Chicago, in March 2012 Cole Bolton—a Brown University graduate of business economics, former associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and research associate at Harvard Business School[111][112]—was named the new editor-in-chief of The Onion. "I was never in an improv group, never in a sketch group, never wrote for an Onion parody in college", said Bolton in a 2014 interview with comedy publication Splitsider.[111] "It was just sort of a decision that I decided, two years out of college, that I didn’t like where I was going in my life, and I wanted to do something that I cared about more, so I ended up just sending stuff in to The Onion."[10][111][112][113]

Additionally, in March 2012 more insight into the internal issues surrounding the Chicago move—including an attempt made by the writers to find a new owner—are explored by articles in The Atlantic Wire[114] and New York magazine's Daily Intelligencer.[115] According to an article in the Chicago Tribune,[116] founding editor Scott Dikkers returned to the publication in light of the Chicago move stating that he hopes to find a "younger and hungrier" pool of talent in Chicago than what was available in New York City. "The Onion is obviously always going to draw talent from wherever it is", Dikkers said. "In Madison, people used to just come in off the street [...] and we'd give them a shot. The Onion has always thrived on the youngest, greenest people."[110][114][115][116][117]

In August 2012, it was announced that a group of former The Onion writers had teamed up with Adult Swim to create comedy content on a website called Thing X. According to the comedy website Splitsider, "The Onion writers had nothing else going on, and AdultSwim.com wanted to take advantage of that. But only because they smelled a business opportunity. Adult Swim is just looking at it from a business standpoint."[118][119] In June 2013, it was announced that Thing X would be shutting down with some staff moving over to parent website adultswim.com on June 18, 2013.[120][121] In February 2013 The Onion was added to Advertising Age's "Digital A-List 2013" because the publication "...has not just survived, it's thrived..." since the publication's 2012 move to consolidate operations and staff in Chicago.[122]

In November 2013, the publication announced in Crain's Chicago Business that The Onion would move to an all-digital format by December 2013, citing a 30% year-over-year growth in pageviews to the publication's website.[123]

In 2013, The Onion received an email from Michael Cohen claiming that an article published about Donald Trump was defamation, and demanded that it be removed with an apology.[124][125]

In June 2014, The Onion launched the spinoff website ClickHole, which satirizes and parodies so-called "clickbait" websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy that capitalize on viral content to drive traffic.[126]

In November 2014, Bloomberg News reported that The Onion had hired a financial adviser for a possible sale.[127] Additionally, in a memo addressing potential sale rumors provided to Walt Mossberg's tech site Re/code Onion CEO Steve Hannah states, "We have had follow-up conversations with numerous parties in recent months. Our advisors will continue to have those conversations and, hopefully, they will lead to the right outcome."[128]

In June 2015 Steve Hannah—the publication's CEO since 2004— stepped down from the position with the new CEO role passed onto current president of the organization, Mike McAvoy.[129][130]

On September 21, 2015, StarWipe—a spinoff sister site of The A.V. Club centered on celebrity culture—was launched.[131] It was closed on June 17, 2016.[132]

In October 2015, CEO Mike McAvoy announced a restructuring of the organization, layoffs as well as a series of management changes. "But even though we’ve done well, we have not been able to keep pace with our ambitious goals for Onion Inc." Kurt Mueller—the company's COO—elaborated on the details stating, "We were overstaffed for the non-media-agency part of the business. We have less demand for a ton of new content for a brand. There's demand, but we just overestimated what the demand is."[133]

In January 2016, Univision Communications purchased a 40% stake in Onion, Inc. "As an independent media company, we’ve always been forced to run a tight financial ship, which has made us smart and lean, but not always ready to invest in the great new ideas that we come up with," Mr. McAvoy said in a memo to staff. "I’m excited to see what we can do with Univision behind us."[134][135] This brings The Onion into the Fusion Media Group arm of Univision, the same media family as the Gizmodo collection of sites (Kotaku, Lifehacker, Deadspin, etc.), which also has led to a consolidated media management platform and aligned content presentation styles with these sister sites.[citation needed]

In January 2017, The Onion partnered with Lionsgate Films and production company Serious Business to develop multiple film projects. "We've plotted our takeover of the film industry for some time", said Kyle Ryan, vice president of Onion Studios, in a wry statement. "With the help of Serious Business and Lionsgate, we'll make room on our award shelf for some Oscars. To the basement you go, Pulitzers." Serious Business is a production company run by former UTA Online co-founder Jason U. Nadler, @midnight co-creator Jon Zimelis and writer/producer Alex Blagg.[136]

In September 2017, the site's editor-in-chief Cole Bolton and executive editor Ben Berkley were stepped down from their posts. Chad Nackers—The Onion’s head writer—will take over as the role of editor-in-chief. The departures were partially due to disagreements about the direction the site was taking under the ownership of Univision.[137]

In April 2018 the employees of the company unionized with The Writers Guild Of America, East.[138] The union comprises "all of the creative staffs at Onion Inc.: The A.V. Club, The Onion, ClickHole, The Takeout, Onion Labs, and Onion Inc.’s video and art departments."[139][140] and reached a contract agreement with management on December 20, 2018.[141]

In July 2018, rumors of pending layoffs at The Onion and related websites Clickhole and The A.V. Club were reported. Corporate parent Univision Communications is said to be looking to reduce the staff of the humor publication by around 15% amidst news of a pending sale of The Onion and related websites as well as Gizmodo Media Group assets. As stated an official Univision press release on the topic, "Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) […] today announced that the Company has initiated a formal process to explore the sale of the assets comprising the Gizmodo Media Group (GMG) and The Onion."[142][143][144][145]

On April 8, 2019, private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group—including The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole—from Univision for an undisclosed amount.[146] The properties will be formed into a new company named G/O Media Inc.[147][148]

Print edition (1988–2013)

During The Onion print edition's 25-year run—from the publication's initial creation in 1988 to the end of the print edition in 2013—it was distributed for free in various cities across the United States and Canada as well as via paid mail order subscription to subscribers around the world. By the time the print edition of The Onion ceased publication in December 2013, it was only available in Chicago, Milwaukee and Providence. At its peak, The Onion had a print circulation of about 500,000 while the publication's websites brought in more than 10 million unique monthly visitors. Below is a list of all of the cities in which The Onion was distributed freely at different points from 1988 to 2013.[116][149][150][151]

Regular features

Regular features of The Onion include:

  • "Statshot", an illustrated statistical snapshot which parodies "USA Today Snapshots."
  • "Infographics", with a bulleted lists of jokes on a theme.
  • Opinion columns, including mock editorials, point-counterpoints, and pieces from regular columnists.
  • Bizarre horoscopes.
  • Slideshows that parody content aggregation sites like Huffington Post and Buzzfeed, usually accompanied by a "click-bait"-style headline.
  • "News in Photos" that feature a photograph and caption with no accompanying story.
  • "American Voices" (formerly called "What Do You Think?"), a mock vox populi survey on a topical current event. There are three respondents—down from the original six—for each topic, who appear to represent a diverse selection of demographics. Although their names and professions change each time they are used, photos of the same people are almost always used, with one of them often described as a systems analyst.
  • An editorial cartoon drawn by "Kelly", a fictional cartoonist. The cartoons are actually the work of artist Ward Sutton and they are a deadpan parody of conservative editorial cartoons, as well as editorial cartoons in general. Many of the cartoons feature the Statue of Liberty, usually shedding a single tear—of joy or anguish—depending on the situation.[9][152]
  • A Person of the Year award, in 2014 honoring Malala Yousafzai and John Cena[153]
  • "'No Way to Prevent This', Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens", a story republished with minor edits after major mass shootings in the United States.[154] The story was first published in response to the 2014 Isla Vista killings.[155]

Editors and writers

As of 2022, the current editor of The Onion is Chad Nackers.[156][157] Past editors and writers have included:

Books, video, film and audio

Books

Since the first publication of Our Dumb Century in 1999, The Onion has produced various books that often compile already produced material into collected volumes. The 2007 publication of Our Dumb World and the 2012 publication of The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge are the only other fully original books content-wise—other than Our Dumb Century—that The Onion has released.[158]

  • The Onion (March 23, 1999). Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0609804612.
  • The Onion (April 4, 2000). The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0609804636.
  • The Onion (September 4, 2001). Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0609808344.
  • The Onion (September 24, 2002). The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 13. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-1400047246.
  • The Onion (September 23, 2003). The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 14. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-1400049615.
  • The Onion (September 28, 2004). Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-1400054558.
  • The Onion (October 4, 2005). Embedded in America: The Onion Complete News Archives Volume 16. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-1400054565.
  • The Onion (October 31, 2006). Homeland Insecurity: The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 17. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0307339843.
  • The Onion (October 30, 2007). Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition. Little, Brown And Company. ISBN 978-0316018425.
  • The Onion (November 3, 2009). Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source. Scribner. ISBN 978-1439156926.
  • The Onion (October 11, 2011). The Ecstasy of Defeat: Sports Reporting at Its Finest by the Editors of the Onion. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-1401310721.
  • The Onion (October 23, 2012). The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316133265.
  • The Onion (November 2014). The Onion Magazine The Iconic Covers That Transformed An Undeserving World. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-25645-2.
  • The Onion (October 2017). The Trump Leaks: The Onion Exposes the Top Secret Memos, Emails, and Doodles That Could Take Down a President. Harper Design. ISBN 978-0062834263.

Onion News Network

Main article: Onion News Network

In April 2007, The Onion launched Onion News Network—a daily web video broadcast—with a story about an illegal immigrant taking an executive's $800,000-a-year job for $600,000 a year. The publication reportedly initially invested about $1 million in the production and initially hired 15 new staffers to focus on the production of this video broadcast. On February 3, 2009, The Onion launched a spin-off of the Onion News Network called the Onion Sports Network.[89]

In a Wikinews interview in November 2007, former Onion President Mills said the Onion News Network had been a huge hit. "We get over a million downloads a week, which makes it one of the more successful produced-for-the-Internet videos", said Mills. "If we're not the most successful, we're one of the most.'[9]

In January 2011, The Onion launched two TV shows on cable networks: Onion SportsDome which premiered January 11 on Comedy Central,[159] and the Onion News Network which premiered January 21 on Independent Film Channel (IFC).[160] Later in the year IFC officially announced the renewal of the Onion News Network for a second season in March 2011 while Comedy Central officially announced the cancellation of Onion SportsDome in June 2011.[161][162]

In August 2011, the Writers Guild of America, East, AFL–CIO, announced the unionization of the Onion News Network writing staff, averting a potential strike which hinged on pay and benefits. It is also not the first time Onion, Inc. has been criticized for the way it treats its employees: In June 2011 A.V. Club Philadelphia city editor Emily Guendelsberger was the victim of an attack and—according to the Philadelphia Daily News—her job did not provide health insurance to cover hospital bills. According to the WGA, Onion News Network was the only scripted, live-action program that had employed non-union writers. "The ONN writers stood together and won real improvements", said WGAE Executive Director Lowell Peterson. "We welcome them into the WGAE and we look forward to a productive relationship with the company." Peterson noted that more than 70 Guild members from all of the New York-based comedy shows signed a letter supporting the Onion News Network writers, and hundreds of Guild members sent emails to the producers.[163][164][165][166][167][168]

In March 2012, IFC officially announced the cancellation of the Onion News Network. After the show's cancellation, a pilot for a new comedy series titled Onion News Empire premiered on Amazon.com in April 2013, which presented as a behind-the-scenes look of The Onion's newsroom. The pilot was one of several candidates for production on Amazon, but was not ultimately selected.[169][170][171]

Video

  • Today Now!: a parody of a morning talk show
  • Onion Film Standard with Peter K. Rosenthal: Movie critic Peter K. Rosenthal (played by Ron E. Rains) presents his views on famous films, both classic and contemporary.[172][173]
  • Onion Social: a parody of Facebook.
  • In the Know with Clifford Banes: a parody news talk show
  • Mothershould with Grace Manning-Devlin: a parody of women's issues YouTube vlogs
  • The Whole Body: Satire health tips.
  • Good Taste: Recipes and cooking videos.
  • EDGE: a parody of the HBO non-fiction program VICE
  • Owner's Box: a parody of ESPN and other sports-news programs
  • Sportology: parodies an investigation of sport science.
  • O-Span: A parody of C-SPAN.
  • Now: Focus: A parody of NowThis News.
  • Onion Explains: Short videos giving a brief explanation of a topic.
  • Onion Insights:

In 2008, The Onion launched a series of YouTube videos produced by its 'Onion Digital Studios' division, funded in part by a grant from YouTube and exclusive to the site.[174] Series produced were:

  • Sex House: A dark satire of reality show culture and negligent producers.[175][176][177]
  • Lake Dredge Appraisal: A show centering on the dredged salvage of a lake, appraised of its worth on public access television.
  • Trouble Hacking with Drew Cleary: A mock Life Hacking Q and A series.
  • Horrifying Planet: A nihilistic parody of nature documentaries.
  • Onion Talks: A satire of TED Talks.[178]
  • Porkin' Across America with Jim Haggerty: An on-the-road food reality show featuring Jim Haggerty from Today Now.[179]
  • America's Best: An American Idol parody.
  • Dr. Good: Parody of The Dr. Oz Show.

The Onion Movie

Main article: The Onion Movie

The Onion Movie is a direct-to-video film written by then-Onion editor Robert D. Siegel and writer Todd Hanson and directed by Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire.[180] Created in 2003, Fox Searchlight Pictures was on board to release the movie, originally called The Untitled Onion Movie, but at some point in the process, directors Kuntz and Maguire—as well as writer Siegel—walked away from the project. In 2006, New Regency Productions took over the production of the troubled project. After two years of being in limbo, the film was released directly on DVD on June 3, 2008. Upon its release it was credited as being directed under the pseudonym of James Kleiner but is still directed by Kuntz and Maguire.[181]

In the spring of 2014, former president, publisher, and CEO of The Onion Peter Haise filed a lawsuit Palm Beach County court against the publication's current chairman David K. Schafer regarding a missing "Executive Producer" credit on the failed film. As stated in the lawsuit, "Onion, Inc. has admitted that Haise was involved in and should have been named as an Executive Producer of the Film, and that the omission in the credits listed for the Film was an error."[182]

Onion Radio News

The Onion Radio News was an audio podcast/radio show produced by The Onion from 1999 and 2009. The core voice of the podcast was that of a fictional newsreader named "Doyle Redland" who was voiced by Pete S. Mueller. At its peak Onion Radio News was picked up by the Westwood One radio network as well as Audible.com.[183][184][185]

Onion Public Radio

On February 5, 2018, The Onion published its first podcast, titled A Very Fatal Murder. It was released in six parts and parodies other true crime podcasts such as Serial and My Favorite Murder. The story follows Onion Public Radio reporter David Pascall (voiced by David Sidorov) as he tries to investigate the murder of a 17-year-old girl named Hayley Price in the fictional town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska.[186]

On January 16, 2020, The Onion expanded its podcast formula to include The Topical, a news podcast which parodies the style and format of NPR drive-time news broadcasts.[187]

Influence

Taken seriously

Occasionally, the straight-faced manner in which The Onion reports non-existent events, happenings and ideas has resulted in third parties mistakenly citing The Onion stories as real news.

  • "'98 Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal": In 1998, Fred Phelps posted The Onion article on his Westboro Baptist Church website as apparent "proof" that homosexuals were indeed actively trying to "recruit" others to be gay.[28][188]
  • "Congress Passes Americans With No Abilities Act": At various times since the article's initial publication in 1998, variants of the "Americans With No Abilities Act" article and theme have been passed around online including a variant in 2009 that changed the stated U.S. President from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama as well as a 2007 variant that changed the country from the United States of America to Australia.[189]
  • "Harry Potter Books Spark Rise in Satanism Among Children": Beginning in the year 2000, an article on Harry Potter inciting children to practice witchcraft was the subject of a widely forwarded email which repeated the quotes attributed to children in the article. Columnist Ellen Makkai and others who believe the Harry Potter books "recruit" children to Satanism have also been taken in by the article, using quotes directly from it to support their claims.[190][191]
  • "Congress Threatens To Leave D.C. Unless New Capitol Is Built": On June 7, 2002, Reuters reported that the Beijing Evening News republished and translated portions of the article.[192] The article is a parody of U.S. sports franchises' threats to leave their home city unless new stadiums are built for them.[193] The Beijing Evening News initially stood by the story, demanding proof of its falsehood but later retracted the article, responding that "...some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them with the aim of making money."[194]
  • "Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport": On the March 24, 2009 broadcast of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Fallon's monologue used the topic of that specific Onion News Network video as a set-up for another joke claiming the report was based on a "study."[195]
  • "Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked": In September 2009, two Bangladeshi newspapers—The Daily Manab Zamin and the New Nation—published stories translated from The Onion claiming that astronaut Neil Armstrong had held a news conference claiming the moon landing was an elaborate hoax.[196]
  • "Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier": In February 2010, online newspapers such as Il Corriere della Sera (Italy) and Adresseavisen (Norway) repackaged clips from The Onion video piece as legitimate news.[197][198]
  • "Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail": In November 2010, the Fox Nation website presented The Onion article as a genuine report.[199]
  • "Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage": In September 2011, United States Capitol Police investigated a series of tweets coming from The Onion's Twitter account claiming that U.S. congressmen were holding twelve children hostage.[200]
  • "Obama Openly Asks Nation Why On Earth He Would Want To Serve For Another Term": On January 7, 2012, Lim Hwee Hua—a former Singaporean MP—posted the article on her Facebook page.[201]
  • "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex": On February 3, 2012, U.S. Congressman John Fleming (R-Louisiana) posted a link to the article on his Facebook page.[202]
  • "Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama": On September 28, 2012 Iran's Fars News Agency copied The Onion story verbatim on their website. The Onion updated the original story with the note: "For more on this story: Please visit our Iranian subsidiary organization, Fars", linking to a screenshot of Fars's coverage of the story.[203][204]
  • "Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive For 2012": On November 27, 2012, the online version of the Chinese Communist Party newspaper The People's Daily ran a story on Kim Jong-un, citing The Onion's article as a source and even included a 55-page photo gallery with the article in tribute to the North Korean leader.[205][206]
  • "Fred Phelps, Man Who Forever Stopped March Of Gay Rights, Dead At 84": In March 2014, Ed Farrell—the Vice Mayor of Maricopa, Arizona—apologized for inadvertently and enthusiastically praising Fred Phelps via a post of the satirical obituary on his Facebook page. In an interview about his Facebook post Farrell apologized for doing it, stating "I had no clue about this guy; he's an idiot. I can't believe that I posted what I posted [...] shame on me."[207][208][209]
  • "FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States": In May 2015, the former FIFA vice president Jack Warner—who was arrested on corruption charges that same month—drew attention to The Onion article in a video posted on Facebook.[210]
  • "Study: Every 10 Seconds A Skyscraper Window Washer Falls To His Death": In September 2018, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić made the statement commenting on the death of two workers who died working on the Belgrade Waterfront construction site. He expressed his condolences to the families, but said that "in Serbia, there are proportionally a lot less accidents in dangerous jobs, such as construction. As for the allegations aimed against the state, I want to tell the citizens—even though I did not want to speak about it—that I read some data. Did you know that, in America, every ten seconds one window washer dies doing his job?".[211]
  • "CIA Issues Posthumous Apology After New Evidence Clears Osama Bin Laden Of Involvement In 9/11 Attacks": On October 13, 2019, former Inspector-General of the Royal Malaysian Police Musa Hassan received flak after sharing the titled post on Twitter then doubling down when other Twitter users pointed out the satirical nature of the site, remarking "Wait for The Onion to deny it. If not, it means that America allows the spreading of fake news."[212]

As a political actor

Several commentators have characterized The Onion's satire as overtly political. Noreen Malone characterized the publication as having a left-leaning outlook by stating:

The best op-eds in the country are written by the staff of The Onion, though they're often published as news articles. The satirical paper [...] still does plenty of hilarious articles on the mundane [...] but its writing on current events has become increasingly biting.[213]

Malone—like other pundits—specifically noted the publication's sharp take on the Syrian Civil War, with David Weigel characterizing the publication's stance as effectively being "…advocacy for intervention in Syria."[214] Weigel attributed the trend toward more news satire—including political news satire—as being a byproduct of the publication's shorter turnaround times after the Internet edition became the main outlet for the publication's voice, endangering The Onion of becoming a "…hivemind version of Andy Borowitz, telling liberals that what they already think is not only true but oh-so-arch." Slate's Farhad Manjoo similarly attributed the publication's "…faster, bigger, more strident, and, to me, a little inconsistent…" vibe to the exigencies of the Internet.[3][214][215]

Emmett Rensin claimed The Onion is an important if unintentional fomenter of Marxist thought in America:

But only one is breathing new life into a far-left movement mostly vanished since FDR dropped dead. It isn't The Socialist Worker. It's not The Militant, either. And it isn't Monthly Review, Political Affairs, World Socialist Website, or Worker's Vanguard. Rather, the vanguard of revolution—the paper most dedicated to the overthrowing capitalism in the United States today—is none other than The Onion.[216]

According to Rensin, examples of indictments of false consciousness, commodity fetishization and valorization of the invisible hand also abound. Rensin attributes the material to the humorists' need to work from "obvious, intuitive truth—the kind necessary for any kind of broadly appealing humor" rather than a conscious decision to promote Marxism.[216]

Some of the publication's political impact is unintentional. For example, the Onion's long-running caricature of Joe Biden as a blue-collar "creepy but harmless uncle" character is often believed to have positively affected the real Joe Biden's public image. In May 2019, the former Onion editor Joe Garden published an op-ed in Vice to express his regret over the character, which he felt had distracted from serious concerns about Biden's political record and personal behavior.[217]

In 2017, President Donald Trump expressed confidence that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he had just appointed as an advisor on foreign affairs, could bring peace to the Middle East. An Onion article then made fun of the idealistic way in which Trump treated the long, complicated and bloody conflict as a mere organisational issue he could delegate, reporting that peace between Israel and Arabia was just too big for Kushner to achieve within the already started office week and now had to be shifted into the subsequent week. The article was then passed around by White House staffers who were apparently alienated by Kushner's appointment.[218]

U.S. Presidential Seal dispute

 
The U.S. Presidential Seal

In September 2005, the assistant counsel to President George W. Bush, Grant M. Dixton, wrote a cease-and-desist letter to The Onion, asking the publication to stop using the presidential seal, which it used in an online parody of Bush.[219]

The Onion responded with a formal request to use the seal in accordance with the executive order, while maintaining that its use was legitimate. The letter stated, "It is inconceivable that anyone would think that, by using the seal, The Onion intends to 'convey... sponsorship or approval' by the president", but then went on to ask that the letter be considered a formal application requesting permission to use the seal.[80][220][221]

85th Academy Awards controversy

During the 85th Academy Awards, a post on The Onion's Twitter account called 9-year-old Best Actress nominee Quvenzhané Wallis "a cunt". The post was deleted within an hour, but not before hundreds of angry responses.[222] CEO Steve Hannah issued an apology to Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, calling the remarks "crude and offensive" and "No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire."[223] Scott Dikkers—who was Vice President Creative Development for the publication at the time—said in an interview with NBC 5 Chicago that the publication had sent an apology note to Quvenzhané and her family but also stated, "She's a big star now. I think she can take it."[224] The publication's public apology was denounced by some former Onion writers, with one stating, "It wasn't a great joke, but big deal."[222][223][224][225]

Murder of The Big Show

On June 16, 2017, The Onion featured an article describing professional wrestler The Big Show being killed by WWE after a seven-year-old boy wandered into a steel cage during a live event in Indianapolis. The article, meant to lampoon the real-life killing of Harambe, a gorilla in a Cincinnati zoo, received criticism for satirizing the murder of an actual person as well as leading many wrestling fans to believe Big Show was dead.[226][227]

Amicus brief in Novak v. City of Parma

 
Amicus brief filed by The Onion in support of petitioner Anthony Novak

In October of 2022, The Onion filed its first amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case Novak v. City of Parma.[228][229] The Onion supported the certiorari petition of Anthony Novak, who was seeking civil damages after having been arrested and unsuccessfully prosecuted over a Facebook page parodying the page of the Parma Police Department.[230] The Onion's brief contained numerous jokes, including a claimed readership of 4.3 trillion,[230] a remark that "the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks",[228] and a boast regarding Jonathan Swift that "its writers are far more talented, and their output will be read long after that hack Swift's has been lost to the sands of time".[231]

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Further reading

  • Berkowitz, Dan; Schwartz, David Asa (2016). "Miley, CNN and The Onion: When fake news becomes realer than real". Journalism Practice. 10 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1080/17512786.2015.1006933. S2CID 142931957.
  • Brodie, Ian (2018). "Pretend News, False News, Fake News: The Onion as Put-On, Prank, and Legend". The Journal of American Folklore. 131 (522): 451–459. doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.131.522.0451. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 10.5406/jamerfolk.131.522.0451. S2CID 165844528.
  • Coogan, Tom (2013). ""Usually I Love The Onion, but This Time You've Gone Too Far": Disability Humour and Transgression". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 7 (1): 1–17. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2013.1. ISSN 1757-6466. S2CID 143591650.
  • Holland, Edward C.; Levy, Adam (2018). "The Onion and the geopolitics of satire". Popular Communication. 16 (3): 182–195. doi:10.1080/15405702.2017.1397674. S2CID 149307551.
  • Fife, Jane (2016). "Peeling The Onion : Satire and the Complexity of Audience Response". Rhetoric Review. 35 (4): 322–334. doi:10.1080/07350198.2016.1215000. S2CID 151462545.
  • Kaye, Sharon M. (2010). The Onion and Philosophy: Fake News Story True, Alleges Indignant Area Professor. Open Court Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8126-9687-5.
  • Leporati, Matthew; Jacklosky, Rob (2021). "Peeling The Onion: Pop culture satire in the writing classroom". Isn't it Ironic?. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-003-08035-0.
  • Marx, Nick (2015). "Radio voices, digital downloads: bridging old and new media in the Onion Radio News podcast". Comedy Studies. 6 (2): 107–117. doi:10.1080/2040610X.2015.1083166. S2CID 193011281.
  • Sinkovich, Justin; Brindisi, Jerry (2016). "Company Profile: The Art, Influence and Business of Satire: Peeling Back the Layers of "The Onion"". International Journal of Arts Management. 18 (2): 75–85. ISSN 1480-8986. JSTOR 44989652.
  • Stevens, Elise M.; McIntyre, Karen (2019). "The Layers of The Onion : The Impact of Satirical News on Affect and Online Sharing Behaviors". Electronic News. 13 (2): 78–92. doi:10.1177/1931243119850264. S2CID 196184028.
  • Waisanen, Don J. (2011). "Crafting Hyperreal Spaces for Comic Insights: The Onion News Network 's Ironic Iconicity". Communication Quarterly. 59 (5): 508–528. doi:10.1080/01463373.2011.615690. S2CID 144663611.

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onion, building, sometimes, nicknamed, city, hall, london, southwark, american, digital, media, company, newspaper, organization, that, publishes, satirical, articles, international, national, local, news, company, based, chicago, originated, weekly, print, pu. For the building sometimes nicknamed The Onion see City Hall London Southwark The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international national and local news The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29 1988 in Madison Wisconsin 1 The Onion began publishing online in early 1996 In 2007 they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network In 2013 The Onion ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs an advertising agency 2 3 The OnionTypeSatirical newspaperFormatWebsiteOwner s G O MediaFounder s Tim KeckChristopher JohnsonEditorChad NackersFoundedAugust 29 1988 34 years ago 1988 08 29 Madison Wisconsin U S 1 Ceased publication2013 print HeadquartersChicago Illinois U S Websitewww wbr theonion wbr comThe Onion s articles cover current events both real and fictional parodying the tone and format of traditional news organizations with stories editorials and man on the street interviews using a traditional news website layout and an editorial voice modeled after that of the Associated Press The publication s humor often depends on presenting mundane everyday events as newsworthy surreal or alarming such as Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness 4 In 1999 comedian Bob Odenkirk praised the publication as the best comedy writing in the country 5 The Onion also runs The A V Club an entertainment and pop culture publication founded in 1993 that contains interviews and reviews of newly released media and other weekly features The Onion previously ran ClickHole a satirical website founded in 2014 which parodies clickbait websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy before ClickHole was acquired by Cards Against Humanity in February 2020 6 7 Contents 1 History 1 1 Publication s name 1 2 Madison 1988 2001 1 3 New York City 2001 2012 1 4 Chicago 2012 present 1 5 Print edition 1988 2013 2 Regular features 3 Editors and writers 4 Books video film and audio 4 1 Books 4 2 Onion News Network 4 3 Video 4 4 The Onion Movie 4 5 Onion Radio News 4 6 Onion Public Radio 5 Influence 5 1 Taken seriously 5 2 As a political actor 5 3 U S Presidential Seal dispute 5 4 85th Academy Awards controversy 5 5 Murder of The Big Show 5 6 Amicus brief in Novak v City of Parma 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory EditPublication s name Edit People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from said former President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews and when I recently asked co founder Tim Keck who was one of the founders he told me Literally that his uncle said he should call it The Onion when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich They had literally just cut up the onion and put it on bread According to former editorial manager Chet Clem their food budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white bread and onions This account was disputed by an editor of The Onion Cole Bolton during an event at the University of Chicago Bolton called Mills s account the dumbest explanation and asserted that it is likely wrong According to Bolton the most plausible explanation is that The Onion was mocking a campus newsletter called The Union 8 9 10 Madison 1988 2001 Edit Conceived by University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson The Onion was founded as a weekly print newspaper for satirical news in 1988 in Madison Wisconsin by Keck and Johnson with their friends Scott Dikkers as cartoonist and Peter Haise as publisher 11 12 In 1989 Keck and Johnson sold the paper to Dikkers and Haise for 16 000 13 11 12 19 000 according to some sources 14 15 After the sale Keck and Johnson separately became publishers of similar alternative weeklies Keck of The Stranger in Seattle Washington and Johnson of the Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque New Mexico 16 17 18 Haise left The Onion after 15 years and eventually opened a custom framing shop in Wauwatosa Wisconsin 19 Dikkers who originally joined the staff as a cartoonist said he was de facto editor by the third issue and became The Onion s longest serving editor in chief 1988 1999 2005 2008 20 In its earlier years The Onion was successful in a number of university locations e g University of Wisconsin Madison and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign The publication primarily consisted of a mix of Dikkers s cartoons Spy magazine like satire and short fiction The bottom three inches were reserved as ad space for coupons that were typically purchased by local student centered or inexpensive establishments such as eateries and video rental stores 18 21 The June 16 1993 issue of The Daily Iowan ran a profile of Dikkers in which it stated that Dikkers still lives in Madison spending about five hours a week on Jim s Journal and the rest of the time as co owner of a satirical newspaper called The Onion 22 In a 1994 interview with U Magazine Dikkers discussed Onion Inc s plans to create a new sketch comedy show called The Comedy Castaways which they were in the process of pitching to NBC Fox and HBO With a pilot and the first two episodes in post production Dikkers said I think what sets us apart is we ve intentionally formed a tightly knit group of funny performers A lot of these other shows are created by 50 year olds written by 40 year olds and performed by 35 year olds 23 In the spring of 1996 Ben Karlin and Dikkers collaborated with Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey to create four short Onion news segments for The Dana Carvey Show Smigel said that after being introduced to The Onion by Bob Odenkirk a year earlier it jumped out at me as something completely original and great and I really wanted to use it on the show Although four fake news segments anchored by Stephen Colbert were recorded only one of the segments actually aired 24 25 In 1996 when it was still only a print newspaper an Onion article titled Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia was widely disseminated online without attribution 26 spurring the creation of The Onion s official website theonion com so they could properly claim credit for content that was being passed around online forums such as Usenet and various mailing lists 27 The publication received expanded global recognition as a result of the website as well 28 29 30 In a 2002 interview then editor in chief Rob Siegel said 31 If you look at the breakdown of people who read The Onion online it s like Microsoft Dell Computers the Department of Justice and then like University of Wisconsin So it s a combination of students and pretty impressive people I get the feeling that the print version is read by people hanging out in bars 3 29 30 In the fall of 1996 Ben Karlin who had been a writer editor for the publication since graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1993 moved to Los Angeles and joined other former Onion staff members to create a pilot for a news parody titled Deadline Now for the Fox Network While the 15 minute pilot which was completed in 1997 was never picked up as a series for production its creation led to steady writing work for Karlin and other former Onion staffers such as writing some episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast on the Cartoon Network In the wake of Karlin s departure Siegel 32 assumed the publication s duties as editor of the publication 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Sometime after The Onion appeared online in 1996 the publication was threatened with a lawsuit from Janet Jackson because of the article Dying Boy Gets Wish To Pork Janet Jackson We were very nearly sued out of existence by Janet Jackson said Siegel adding that in the past he was forbidden to talk about the legal matter and the celebrity involved 39 40 On January 27 1998 MTV premiered Virtual Bill a collaboration between writers of The Onion and 3 D character studio Protozoa The titular Virtual Bill character was a quasi realistic CGI version of Bill Clinton created by studio Protozoa who introduced music videos and told jokes written by the staff of The Onion The voice of Virtual Bill was provided by then editor Dikkers After the initial premiere Virtual Bill returned to MTV on December 17 1998 with another TV special and an interactive web special produced by Pulse that ported the 3D data into a web compatible format using Pulse s proprietary plug in 41 42 43 44 45 In January 1999 when Jon Stewart became the host of The Daily Show he tapped former Onion writer editor Karlin to be head writer of the newly restructured show He had heard about this group of Onion people in L A and in a weird way I was the de facto ringleader of our group in L A I came to New York Jon and I connected It was kind of like a slightly awkward but successful first date When I got back to Los Angeles they offered me the head writer job 33 34 35 36 37 From March 3 7 1999 writers and editors of The Onion attended U S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen Colorado in part to promote the forthcoming Our Dumb Century anthology and were met with effusive praise for their work from notable comedians such as Conan O Brien Dave Foley and Dave Thomas as well as cartoonist Peter Bagge and musician Andy Prieboy 28 46 On March 18 1999 The Onion s website won its first Webby Award in the category of Humor 47 48 On March 23 1999 The Onion s first fully original book Our Dumb Century was released The book featured mocked up newspaper front pages from the entire 20th century presented under the premise that the publication had been continuously in print since before 1900 49 50 51 In the wake of the book s success networks such as HBO and NBC were in talks to bring The Onion to TV with a special based on Our Dumb Century 18 Despite nearly two years of work spent on conceiving and producing Our Dumb Century the writers only received bonuses of a few thousand dollars citation needed despite the fact that the two book publishing deal netted The Onion 450 000 18 49 50 51 In April 2000 DreamWorks Studios optioned two stories from the satirical newspaper Canadian Girlfriend Unsubstantiated which was to be written by former Onion editor and writer Rich Dahm and Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell with an eye toward producing the latter as a family comedy The story is so dark and hate filled I was shocked said head writer Todd Hanson It s like an Onion joke I mean what are they going to do Add a sickly but adorable moppet added editor Robert Siegel DreamWorks planned for the finished Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell to involve animation as well as musical singalongs 52 53 54 55 In June 2000 writers and editors of The Onion participated in Comedy Central panel discussion moderated by Jeff Greenfield titled The State of The Onion during the Toyota Comedy Festival 2000 56 57 In July 2000 The Onion s editor Robert Siegel was named one of People magazine s most eligible bachelors If a person is beautiful on the inside Siegel said looks don t really matter 31 58 New York City 2001 2012 Edit Beginning in the fall of 2000 to early 2001 the company relocated its editorial offices from Madison Wisconsin to a renovated warehouse in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan New York City to raise The Onion s profile expand the publication from being simply a humor newspaper into a full production company as well as develop editorial content in other media including books television and movies and engage more directly with Internet companies as far as advertising revenue goes 59 60 61 62 63 64 In February 2001 Miramax Films head Harvey Weinstein announced they had reached a first look agreement to develop scripts and features with The Onion As lifelong New Yorkers we re proud to welcome The Onion to our city with this first look deal said Harvey Weinstein With their witty sophisticated humor they will undoubtedly soon be the toast of the town Weinstein added 65 66 67 On September 27 2001 The Onion debuted its New York City print edition with an issue focused on the September 11 attacks The popularity and critical praise of the issue resulted in The Onion s website s online traffic nearly doubling in the weeks following the attacks 68 69 In November 2002 a humorous op ed piece in The Onion that was satirically bylined by filmmaker Michael Bay titled Those Chechen Rebels Stole My Idea 70 was removed from the site without explanation Entertainment industry trade magazine Variety theorized It s not clear if Bay a frequent object of The Onion s satire requested the move 70 71 72 73 In 2003 The Onion was purchased by David Schafer who had previously managed the 2 5 billion investment fund from previous long time owners Peter Haise and Scott Dikkers The sale was a process that had been in the works since July 2001 and according to a memo from then owner Haise Schafer understands our quirky company and knows that we need some time to get to a higher level of operations and sales 69 In a 2003 CNN profile of The Onion Schafer stated with regards to the company and the purchase The Onion s strong point was never accounting financial management or business Buying it was a bit of a shot in the dark but we felt we could get a handle on it Also in 2003 editor Robert Siegel quit his day to day role at The Onion 39 to focus on writing screenplays full time 74 75 After the 14 000th headline I felt the itch to use a different part of my brain he said You can go mad thinking in headline form In the wake of his departure long time staff writer Carol Kolb 76 assumed the publication s duties as editor of the publication 14 55 74 75 76 77 78 79 In 2005 The Onion moved its New York City offices from its initial Chelsea location to downtown on Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan New York City 80 In 2006 The Onion had reached a print circulation of 549 000 it was distributed for free in several cities 81 The same year it launched a YouTube channel which was structured as a parody of modern American television news programs 82 In June 2006 it was also announced that Siegel had been tapped by Miramax Films to write the screenplay for a comedy titled Homeland Insecurity which was slated to be about a pair of Arab Americans who are mistaken for terrorists while traveling to Texas 83 Additionally rumors of a potential sale of The Onion to media conglomerate Viacom began appearing in various news outlets during July 2006 with The New York Times DealBook expanding on the discussion by stating While a source tells DealBook that such a deal has indeed been discussed it is in very early stages and may never happen 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 In April 2007 The Onion launched the Onion News Network a parody of the visual style and breathless reporting of 24 hour cable news networks like CNN 89 In 2008 Carol Kolb became the head writer of the Onion News Network with the role of the publication s editor being taken over by writer Joe Randazzo Randazzo first became a writer for The Onion in 2006 and in his role as an editor became the first editor of the publication that had no connection to The Onion during the publication s initial Madison Wisconsin era 11 90 91 92 93 In April 2009 The Onion was awarded a 2008 Peabody Award noting that the publication provides ersatz news that has a worrisome ring of truth 94 95 In November 2009 The Onion released Our Front Pages 21 Years of Greatness Virtue and Moral Rectitude From America s Finest News Source which was notable in not only compiling dozens of front pages from the publication s history as a news parody but also showcasing front pages from the publication s early more casual campus humor focused era during the 1980s when the publication featured headlines such as Depressed Try Liposuction on that Pesky Head 96 In July 2009 various news outlets began reporting rumors of an impending sale of The Onion with further details of the sale to be made on Monday July 20 2009 97 98 The purported sale was revealed as fictional Publisher Emeritus T Herman Zweibel stating he d sold the publication to a Chinese company Yu Wan Mei Corporation resulting in a week long series of Chinese related articles and features throughout the publication s website and print editions 99 100 On Wednesday July 22 2009 the publication s editor Joe Randazzo clarified the issue on National Public Radio s All Things Considered stating I m sure there are many Chinese conglomerates out there that would love to buy The Onion We are in fact still a solvent independently owned American company 101 In August 2011 The Onion s website began testing a paywall model requiring a 2 95 monthly 29 95 annual charge from non U S visitors who wish to read more than about five stories within 30 days We are testing a meter internationally as readers in those markets are already used to paying directly for some other content particularly in the UK where we have many readers said the company s CTO Michael Greer 102 103 104 In September 2011 it was announced that The Onion would move its entire editorial operation to Chicago by the summer of 2012 The news of the move left many of the writers who moved with the publication from Madison to New York City in 2000 blindsided putting them in a position to decide whether to uproot themselves from New York City and follow the publication to Chicago which was already home to the company s corporate headquarters At a comedy show on September 27 2011 then editor Joe Randazzo announced that he would not be joining the staff in Chicago 105 106 107 108 109 110 Chicago 2012 present Edit With the publication s core editorial staff now based in Chicago in March 2012 Cole Bolton a Brown University graduate of business economics former associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and research associate at Harvard Business School 111 112 was named the new editor in chief of The Onion I was never in an improv group never in a sketch group never wrote for an Onion parody in college said Bolton in a 2014 interview with comedy publication Splitsider 111 It was just sort of a decision that I decided two years out of college that I didn t like where I was going in my life and I wanted to do something that I cared about more so I ended up just sending stuff in to The Onion 10 111 112 113 Additionally in March 2012 more insight into the internal issues surrounding the Chicago move including an attempt made by the writers to find a new owner are explored by articles in The Atlantic Wire 114 and New York magazine s Daily Intelligencer 115 According to an article in the Chicago Tribune 116 founding editor Scott Dikkers returned to the publication in light of the Chicago move stating that he hopes to find a younger and hungrier pool of talent in Chicago than what was available in New York City The Onion is obviously always going to draw talent from wherever it is Dikkers said In Madison people used to just come in off the street and we d give them a shot The Onion has always thrived on the youngest greenest people 110 114 115 116 117 In August 2012 it was announced that a group of former The Onion writers had teamed up with Adult Swim to create comedy content on a website called Thing X According to the comedy website Splitsider The Onion writers had nothing else going on and AdultSwim com wanted to take advantage of that But only because they smelled a business opportunity Adult Swim is just looking at it from a business standpoint 118 119 In June 2013 it was announced that Thing X would be shutting down with some staff moving over to parent website adultswim com on June 18 2013 120 121 In February 2013 The Onion was added to Advertising Age s Digital A List 2013 because the publication has not just survived it s thrived since the publication s 2012 move to consolidate operations and staff in Chicago 122 In November 2013 the publication announced in Crain s Chicago Business that The Onion would move to an all digital format by December 2013 citing a 30 year over year growth in pageviews to the publication s website 123 In 2013 The Onion received an email from Michael Cohen claiming that an article published about Donald Trump was defamation and demanded that it be removed with an apology 124 125 In June 2014 The Onion launched the spinoff website ClickHole which satirizes and parodies so called clickbait websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy that capitalize on viral content to drive traffic 126 In November 2014 Bloomberg News reported that The Onion had hired a financial adviser for a possible sale 127 Additionally in a memo addressing potential sale rumors provided to Walt Mossberg s tech site Re code Onion CEO Steve Hannah states We have had follow up conversations with numerous parties in recent months Our advisors will continue to have those conversations and hopefully they will lead to the right outcome 128 In June 2015 Steve Hannah the publication s CEO since 2004 stepped down from the position with the new CEO role passed onto current president of the organization Mike McAvoy 129 130 On September 21 2015 StarWipe a spinoff sister site of The A V Club centered on celebrity culture was launched 131 It was closed on June 17 2016 132 In October 2015 CEO Mike McAvoy announced a restructuring of the organization layoffs as well as a series of management changes But even though we ve done well we have not been able to keep pace with our ambitious goals for Onion Inc Kurt Mueller the company s COO elaborated on the details stating We were overstaffed for the non media agency part of the business We have less demand for a ton of new content for a brand There s demand but we just overestimated what the demand is 133 In January 2016 Univision Communications purchased a 40 stake in Onion Inc As an independent media company we ve always been forced to run a tight financial ship which has made us smart and lean but not always ready to invest in the great new ideas that we come up with Mr McAvoy said in a memo to staff I m excited to see what we can do with Univision behind us 134 135 This brings The Onion into the Fusion Media Group arm of Univision the same media family as the Gizmodo collection of sites Kotaku Lifehacker Deadspin etc which also has led to a consolidated media management platform and aligned content presentation styles with these sister sites citation needed In January 2017 The Onion partnered with Lionsgate Films and production company Serious Business to develop multiple film projects We ve plotted our takeover of the film industry for some time said Kyle Ryan vice president of Onion Studios in a wry statement With the help of Serious Business and Lionsgate we ll make room on our award shelf for some Oscars To the basement you go Pulitzers Serious Business is a production company run by former UTA Online co founder Jason U Nadler midnight co creator Jon Zimelis and writer producer Alex Blagg 136 In September 2017 the site s editor in chief Cole Bolton and executive editor Ben Berkley were stepped down from their posts Chad Nackers The Onion s head writer will take over as the role of editor in chief The departures were partially due to disagreements about the direction the site was taking under the ownership of Univision 137 In April 2018 the employees of the company unionized with The Writers Guild Of America East 138 The union comprises all of the creative staffs at Onion Inc The A V Club The Onion ClickHole The Takeout Onion Labs and Onion Inc s video and art departments 139 140 and reached a contract agreement with management on December 20 2018 141 In July 2018 rumors of pending layoffs at The Onion and related websites Clickhole and The A V Club were reported Corporate parent Univision Communications is said to be looking to reduce the staff of the humor publication by around 15 amidst news of a pending sale of The Onion and related websites as well as Gizmodo Media Group assets As stated an official Univision press release on the topic Univision Communications Inc UCI today announced that the Company has initiated a formal process to explore the sale of the assets comprising the Gizmodo Media Group GMG and The Onion 142 143 144 145 On April 8 2019 private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group including The Onion The A V Club and Clickhole from Univision for an undisclosed amount 146 The properties will be formed into a new company named G O Media Inc 147 148 Print edition 1988 2013 Edit During The Onion print edition s 25 year run from the publication s initial creation in 1988 to the end of the print edition in 2013 it was distributed for free in various cities across the United States and Canada as well as via paid mail order subscription to subscribers around the world By the time the print edition of The Onion ceased publication in December 2013 it was only available in Chicago Milwaukee and Providence At its peak The Onion had a print circulation of about 500 000 while the publication s websites brought in more than 10 million unique monthly visitors Below is a list of all of the cities in which The Onion was distributed freely at different points from 1988 to 2013 116 149 150 151 Ann Arbor Michigan Austin Texas Boulder Colorado Champaign Urbana Illinois Chicago Columbus Ohio Denver Colorado Indianapolis Iowa City Los Angeles Madison Wisconsin Milwaukee Minneapolis Saint Paul New York City Omaha Nebraska Philadelphia Pittsburgh Providence Rhode Island San Francisco Santa Fe New Mexico Toronto Ontario Canada Washington D C Regular features EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed December 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Regular features of The Onion include Statshot an illustrated statistical snapshot which parodies USA Today Snapshots Infographics with a bulleted lists of jokes on a theme Opinion columns including mock editorials point counterpoints and pieces from regular columnists Bizarre horoscopes Slideshows that parody content aggregation sites like Huffington Post and Buzzfeed usually accompanied by a click bait style headline News in Photos that feature a photograph and caption with no accompanying story American Voices formerly called What Do You Think a mock vox populi survey on a topical current event There are three respondents down from the original six for each topic who appear to represent a diverse selection of demographics Although their names and professions change each time they are used photos of the same people are almost always used with one of them often described as a systems analyst An editorial cartoon drawn by Kelly a fictional cartoonist The cartoons are actually the work of artist Ward Sutton and they are a deadpan parody of conservative editorial cartoons as well as editorial cartoons in general Many of the cartoons feature the Statue of Liberty usually shedding a single tear of joy or anguish depending on the situation 9 152 A Person of the Year award in 2014 honoring Malala Yousafzai and John Cena 153 No Way to Prevent This Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens a story republished with minor edits after major mass shootings in the United States 154 The story was first published in response to the 2014 Isla Vista killings 155 Editors and writers EditAs of 2022 the current editor of The Onion is Chad Nackers 156 157 Past editors and writers have included Max Cannon Rich Dahm Scott Dikkers Megan Ganz Joe Garden Todd Hanson Tim Harrod David Javerbaum Ben Karlin Ellie Kemper Peter Koechley Carol Kolb Joe Randazzo Maria Schneider Robert D Siegel Jack Szwergold Baratunde Thurston Dan VebberBooks video film and audio EditBooks Edit Since the first publication of Our Dumb Century in 1999 The Onion has produced various books that often compile already produced material into collected volumes The 2007 publication of Our Dumb World and the 2012 publication of The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge are the only other fully original books content wise other than Our Dumb Century that The Onion has released 158 The Onion March 23 1999 Our Dumb Century The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America s Finest News Source Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0609804612 The Onion April 4 2000 The Onion s Finest News Reporting Volume 1 Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0609804636 The Onion September 4 2001 Dispatches from the Tenth Circle The Best of The Onion Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0609808344 The Onion September 24 2002 The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives Volume 13 Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 1400047246 The Onion September 23 2003 The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives Volume 14 Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 1400049615 The Onion September 28 2004 Fanfare for the Area Man The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives Vol 15 Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 1400054558 The Onion October 4 2005 Embedded in America The Onion Complete News Archives Volume 16 Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 1400054565 The Onion October 31 2006 Homeland Insecurity The Onion Complete News Archives Volume 17 Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0307339843 The Onion October 30 2007 Our Dumb World The Onion s Atlas of the Planet Earth 73rd Edition Little Brown And Company ISBN 978 0316018425 The Onion November 3 2009 Our Front Pages 21 Years of Greatness Virtue and Moral Rectitude from America s Finest News Source Scribner ISBN 978 1439156926 The Onion October 11 2011 The Ecstasy of Defeat Sports Reporting at Its Finest by the Editors of the Onion Hachette Books ISBN 978 1401310721 The Onion October 23 2012 The Onion Book of Known Knowledge A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information Little Brown and Company ISBN 978 0316133265 The Onion November 2014 The Onion Magazine The Iconic Covers That Transformed An Undeserving World Little Brown and Company ISBN 978 0 316 25645 2 The Onion October 2017 The Trump Leaks The Onion Exposes the Top Secret Memos Emails and Doodles That Could Take Down a President Harper Design ISBN 978 0062834263 Onion News Network Edit Main article Onion News Network In April 2007 The Onion launched Onion News Network a daily web video broadcast with a story about an illegal immigrant taking an executive s 800 000 a year job for 600 000 a year The publication reportedly initially invested about 1 million in the production and initially hired 15 new staffers to focus on the production of this video broadcast On February 3 2009 The Onion launched a spin off of the Onion News Network called the Onion Sports Network 89 In a Wikinews interview in November 2007 former Onion President Mills said the Onion News Network had been a huge hit We get over a million downloads a week which makes it one of the more successful produced for the Internet videos said Mills If we re not the most successful we re one of the most 9 In January 2011 The Onion launched two TV shows on cable networks Onion SportsDome which premiered January 11 on Comedy Central 159 and the Onion News Network which premiered January 21 on Independent Film Channel IFC 160 Later in the year IFC officially announced the renewal of the Onion News Network for a second season in March 2011 while Comedy Central officially announced the cancellation of Onion SportsDome in June 2011 161 162 In August 2011 the Writers Guild of America East AFL CIO announced the unionization of the Onion News Network writing staff averting a potential strike which hinged on pay and benefits It is also not the first time Onion Inc has been criticized for the way it treats its employees In June 2011 A V Club Philadelphia city editor Emily Guendelsberger was the victim of an attack and according to the Philadelphia Daily News her job did not provide health insurance to cover hospital bills According to the WGA Onion News Network was the only scripted live action program that had employed non union writers The ONN writers stood together and won real improvements said WGAE Executive Director Lowell Peterson We welcome them into the WGAE and we look forward to a productive relationship with the company Peterson noted that more than 70 Guild members from all of the New York based comedy shows signed a letter supporting the Onion News Network writers and hundreds of Guild members sent emails to the producers 163 164 165 166 167 168 In March 2012 IFC officially announced the cancellation of the Onion News Network After the show s cancellation a pilot for a new comedy series titled Onion News Empire premiered on Amazon com in April 2013 which presented as a behind the scenes look of The Onion s newsroom The pilot was one of several candidates for production on Amazon but was not ultimately selected 169 170 171 Video Edit Today Now a parody of a morning talk show Onion Film Standard with Peter K Rosenthal Movie critic Peter K Rosenthal played by Ron E Rains presents his views on famous films both classic and contemporary 172 173 Onion Social a parody of Facebook In the Know with Clifford Banes a parody news talk show Mothershould with Grace Manning Devlin a parody of women s issues YouTube vlogs The Whole Body Satire health tips Good Taste Recipes and cooking videos EDGE a parody of the HBO non fiction program VICE Owner s Box a parody of ESPN and other sports news programs Sportology parodies an investigation of sport science O Span A parody of C SPAN Now Focus A parody of NowThis News Onion Explains Short videos giving a brief explanation of a topic Onion Insights In 2008 The Onion launched a series of YouTube videos produced by its Onion Digital Studios division funded in part by a grant from YouTube and exclusive to the site 174 Series produced were Sex House A dark satire of reality show culture and negligent producers 175 176 177 Lake Dredge Appraisal A show centering on the dredged salvage of a lake appraised of its worth on public access television Trouble Hacking with Drew Cleary A mock Life Hacking Q and A series Horrifying Planet A nihilistic parody of nature documentaries Onion Talks A satire of TED Talks 178 Porkin Across America with Jim Haggerty An on the road food reality show featuring Jim Haggerty from Today Now 179 America s Best An American Idol parody Dr Good Parody of The Dr Oz Show The Onion Movie Edit Main article The Onion Movie The Onion Movie is a direct to video film written by then Onion editor Robert D Siegel and writer Todd Hanson and directed by Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire 180 Created in 2003 Fox Searchlight Pictures was on board to release the movie originally called The Untitled Onion Movie but at some point in the process directors Kuntz and Maguire as well as writer Siegel walked away from the project In 2006 New Regency Productions took over the production of the troubled project After two years of being in limbo the film was released directly on DVD on June 3 2008 Upon its release it was credited as being directed under the pseudonym of James Kleiner but is still directed by Kuntz and Maguire 181 In the spring of 2014 former president publisher and CEO of The Onion Peter Haise filed a lawsuit Palm Beach County court against the publication s current chairman David K Schafer regarding a missing Executive Producer credit on the failed film As stated in the lawsuit Onion Inc has admitted that Haise was involved in and should have been named as an Executive Producer of the Film and that the omission in the credits listed for the Film was an error 182 Onion Radio News Edit The Onion Radio News was an audio podcast radio show produced by The Onion from 1999 and 2009 The core voice of the podcast was that of a fictional newsreader named Doyle Redland who was voiced by Pete S Mueller At its peak Onion Radio News was picked up by the Westwood One radio network as well as Audible com 183 184 185 Onion Public Radio Edit On February 5 2018 The Onion published its first podcast titled A Very Fatal Murder It was released in six parts and parodies other true crime podcasts such as Serial and My Favorite Murder The story follows Onion Public Radio reporter David Pascall voiced by David Sidorov as he tries to investigate the murder of a 17 year old girl named Hayley Price in the fictional town of Bluff Springs Nebraska 186 On January 16 2020 The Onion expanded its podcast formula to include The Topical a news podcast which parodies the style and format of NPR drive time news broadcasts 187 Influence EditTaken seriously Edit Occasionally the straight faced manner in which The Onion reports non existent events happenings and ideas has resulted in third parties mistakenly citing The Onion stories as real news 98 Homosexual Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal In 1998 Fred Phelps posted The Onion article on his Westboro Baptist Church website as apparent proof that homosexuals were indeed actively trying to recruit others to be gay 28 188 Congress Passes Americans With No Abilities Act At various times since the article s initial publication in 1998 variants of the Americans With No Abilities Act article and theme have been passed around online including a variant in 2009 that changed the stated U S President from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama as well as a 2007 variant that changed the country from the United States of America to Australia 189 Harry Potter Books Spark Rise in Satanism Among Children Beginning in the year 2000 an article on Harry Potter inciting children to practice witchcraft was the subject of a widely forwarded email which repeated the quotes attributed to children in the article Columnist Ellen Makkai and others who believe the Harry Potter books recruit children to Satanism have also been taken in by the article using quotes directly from it to support their claims 190 191 Congress Threatens To Leave D C Unless New Capitol Is Built On June 7 2002 Reuters reported that the Beijing Evening News republished and translated portions of the article 192 The article is a parody of U S sports franchises threats to leave their home city unless new stadiums are built for them 193 The Beijing Evening News initially stood by the story demanding proof of its falsehood but later retracted the article responding that some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them with the aim of making money 194 Prague s Franz Kafka International Named World s Most Alienating Airport On the March 24 2009 broadcast of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Fallon s monologue used the topic of that specific Onion News Network video as a set up for another joke claiming the report was based on a study 195 Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked In September 2009 two Bangladeshi newspapers The Daily Manab Zamin and the New Nation published stories translated from The Onion claiming that astronaut Neil Armstrong had held a news conference claiming the moon landing was an elaborate hoax 196 Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier In February 2010 online newspapers such as Il Corriere della Sera Italy and Adresseavisen Norway repackaged clips from The Onion video piece as legitimate news 197 198 Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75 000 Word E Mail In November 2010 the Fox Nation website presented The Onion article as a genuine report 199 Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage In September 2011 United States Capitol Police investigated a series of tweets coming from The Onion s Twitter account claiming that U S congressmen were holding twelve children hostage 200 Obama Openly Asks Nation Why On Earth He Would Want To Serve For Another Term On January 7 2012 Lim Hwee Hua a former Singaporean MP posted the article on her Facebook page 201 Planned Parenthood Opens 8 Billion Abortionplex On February 3 2012 U S Congressman John Fleming R Louisiana posted a link to the article on his Facebook page 202 Gallup Poll Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama On September 28 2012 Iran s Fars News Agency copied The Onion story verbatim on their website The Onion updated the original story with the note For more on this story Please visit our Iranian subsidiary organization Fars linking to a screenshot of Fars s coverage of the story 203 204 Kim Jong Un Named The Onion s Sexiest Man Alive For 2012 On November 27 2012 the online version of the Chinese Communist Party newspaper The People s Daily ran a story on Kim Jong un citing The Onion s article as a source and even included a 55 page photo gallery with the article in tribute to the North Korean leader 205 206 Fred Phelps Man Who Forever Stopped March Of Gay Rights Dead At 84 In March 2014 Ed Farrell the Vice Mayor of Maricopa Arizona apologized for inadvertently and enthusiastically praising Fred Phelps via a post of the satirical obituary on his Facebook page In an interview about his Facebook post Farrell apologized for doing it stating I had no clue about this guy he s an idiot I can t believe that I posted what I posted shame on me 207 208 209 FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States In May 2015 the former FIFA vice president Jack Warner who was arrested on corruption charges that same month drew attention to The Onion article in a video posted on Facebook 210 Study Every 10 Seconds A Skyscraper Window Washer Falls To His Death In September 2018 Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic made the statement commenting on the death of two workers who died working on the Belgrade Waterfront construction site He expressed his condolences to the families but said that in Serbia there are proportionally a lot less accidents in dangerous jobs such as construction As for the allegations aimed against the state I want to tell the citizens even though I did not want to speak about it that I read some data Did you know that in America every ten seconds one window washer dies doing his job 211 CIA Issues Posthumous Apology After New Evidence Clears Osama Bin Laden Of Involvement In 9 11 Attacks On October 13 2019 former Inspector General of the Royal Malaysian Police Musa Hassan received flak after sharing the titled post on Twitter then doubling down when other Twitter users pointed out the satirical nature of the site remarking Wait for The Onion to deny it If not it means that America allows the spreading of fake news 212 As a political actor EditSeveral commentators have characterized The Onion s satire as overtly political Noreen Malone characterized the publication as having a left leaning outlook by stating The best op eds in the country are written by the staff of The Onion though they re often published as news articles The satirical paper still does plenty of hilarious articles on the mundane but its writing on current events has become increasingly biting 213 Malone like other pundits specifically noted the publication s sharp take on the Syrian Civil War with David Weigel characterizing the publication s stance as effectively being advocacy for intervention in Syria 214 Weigel attributed the trend toward more news satire including political news satire as being a byproduct of the publication s shorter turnaround times after the Internet edition became the main outlet for the publication s voice endangering The Onion of becoming a hivemind version of Andy Borowitz telling liberals that what they already think is not only true but oh so arch Slate s Farhad Manjoo similarly attributed the publication s faster bigger more strident and to me a little inconsistent vibe to the exigencies of the Internet 3 214 215 Emmett Rensin claimed The Onion is an important if unintentional fomenter of Marxist thought in America But only one is breathing new life into a far left movement mostly vanished since FDR dropped dead It isn t The Socialist Worker It s not The Militant either And it isn t Monthly Review Political Affairs World Socialist Website or Worker s Vanguard Rather the vanguard of revolution the paper most dedicated to the overthrowing capitalism in the United States today is none other than The Onion 216 According to Rensin examples of indictments of false consciousness commodity fetishization and valorization of the invisible hand also abound Rensin attributes the material to the humorists need to work from obvious intuitive truth the kind necessary for any kind of broadly appealing humor rather than a conscious decision to promote Marxism 216 Some of the publication s political impact is unintentional For example the Onion s long running caricature of Joe Biden as a blue collar creepy but harmless uncle character is often believed to have positively affected the real Joe Biden s public image In May 2019 the former Onion editor Joe Garden published an op ed in Vice to express his regret over the character which he felt had distracted from serious concerns about Biden s political record and personal behavior 217 In 2017 President Donald Trump expressed confidence that his son in law Jared Kushner whom he had just appointed as an advisor on foreign affairs could bring peace to the Middle East An Onion article then made fun of the idealistic way in which Trump treated the long complicated and bloody conflict as a mere organisational issue he could delegate reporting that peace between Israel and Arabia was just too big for Kushner to achieve within the already started office week and now had to be shifted into the subsequent week The article was then passed around by White House staffers who were apparently alienated by Kushner s appointment 218 U S Presidential Seal dispute Edit The U S Presidential Seal In September 2005 the assistant counsel to President George W Bush Grant M Dixton wrote a cease and desist letter to The Onion asking the publication to stop using the presidential seal which it used in an online parody of Bush 219 The Onion responded with a formal request to use the seal in accordance with the executive order while maintaining that its use was legitimate The letter stated It is inconceivable that anyone would think that by using the seal The Onion intends to convey sponsorship or approval by the president but then went on to ask that the letter be considered a formal application requesting permission to use the seal 80 220 221 85th Academy Awards controversy Edit During the 85th Academy Awards a post on The Onion s Twitter account called 9 year old Best Actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis a cunt The post was deleted within an hour but not before hundreds of angry responses 222 CEO Steve Hannah issued an apology to Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calling the remarks crude and offensive and No person should be subjected to such a senseless humorless comment masquerading as satire 223 Scott Dikkers who was Vice President Creative Development for the publication at the time said in an interview with NBC 5 Chicago that the publication had sent an apology note to Quvenzhane and her family but also stated She s a big star now I think she can take it 224 The publication s public apology was denounced by some former Onion writers with one stating It wasn t a great joke but big deal 222 223 224 225 Murder of The Big Show Edit On June 16 2017 The Onion featured an article describing professional wrestler The Big Show being killed by WWE after a seven year old boy wandered into a steel cage during a live event in Indianapolis The article meant to lampoon the real life killing of Harambe a gorilla in a Cincinnati zoo received criticism for satirizing the murder of an actual person as well as leading many wrestling fans to believe Big Show was dead 226 227 Amicus brief in Novak v City of Parma Edit Amicus brief filed by The Onion in support of petitioner Anthony Novak In October of 2022 The Onion filed its first amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Novak v City of Parma 228 229 The Onion supported the certiorari petition of Anthony Novak who was seeking civil damages after having been arrested and unsuccessfully prosecuted over a Facebook page parodying the page of the Parma Police Department 230 The Onion s brief contained numerous jokes including a claimed readership of 4 3 trillion 230 a remark that the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks 228 and a boast regarding Jonathan Swift that its writers are far more talented and their output will be read long after that hack Swift s has been lost to the sands of time 231 See also EditList of satirical magazines List of satirical news websites List of satirical television news programsReferences Edit a b Marino Nick July 22 2009 Six Insights From an Editor at The Onion Paste Magazine Archived from the original on July 22 2009 Retrieved July 24 2016 Onion Labs Archived from the original on March 31 2013 Retrieved December 30 2012 a b c Manjoo Farhad September 5 2013 A Disturbance in the Force Slate Retrieved December 13 2013 Onion The Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness The 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Onion s CTO Our paywall experiment is just that Nieman Journalism Lab Retrieved June 24 2015 O Neal Sean August 8 2011 About The Onion s new paid content system The A V Club Retrieved June 24 2015 Herrmann Lynn September 22 2011 The Onion moving to Chicago leaves writers blindsided Digital Journal Retrieved June 24 2015 Hartsell Carol September 21 2011 The Onion Could Move To Chicago Forcing NYC Writers To Relocate Or Leave Huffington Post Retrieved June 24 2015 O Shea Chris September 22 2011 The Onion is Leaving New York FishbowNY Retrieved June 24 2015 Guy Sandra September 22 2011 The Onion to move editorial staff to Chicago Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on February 10 2013 Retrieved June 24 2015 Romenesko Jim September 22 2011 The Onion editorial staff to move from New York to Chicago Poynter org Archived from the original on October 25 2011 Retrieved June 24 2015 a b Hartsell Carol September 29 2011 The Onion Editor Joe Randazzo To Leave Ahead Of Chicago Move Huffington Post Retrieved June 24 2015 a b c Popkin Jeremy March 2 2014 Talking to The Onion s New Editor Cole Bolton Splitsider Retrieved June 29 2015 a b da Costa Pedro Nicolaci May 5 2014 Funny Money From Fed Economist to Editor of The Onion The Wall Street Journal Retrieved June 29 2015 Washington Ideas Forum 2014 Interview Cole Bolton Editor in Chief The Onion FORA tv October 29 2014 Retrieved June 29 2015 a b Hudson John March 22 2012 The Onion s Bumpy Ride to Chicago The Wire The Atlantic Retrieved June 24 2015 a b Coscarelli Joe March 22 2012 Writers at The Onion Refusing to Leave New York for Chicago New York Magazine Retrieved June 24 2015 a b c Channick Robert March 31 2012 Nothing Fake About The Onion s Move New York Magazine Retrieved June 24 2015 Dries Kate April 5 2012 Can Chicago create a sustainable professional comedy industry to rival the coasts WBEZ The BEZ Retrieved June 24 2015 Frucci Adam August 13 2012 Adult Swim and Former Onion Writers Are Teaming Up to Produce Comedy Videos Maybe Splitsider Retrieved June 24 2015 McMillan Graeme October 17 2012 Adult Swim launches Thing X to compete for Internet comedy supremacy Digital Trends Retrieved June 24 2015 Evans Bradford June 12 2013 Thing X Is Shutting Down and Moving to AdultSwim com Splitsider Retrieved June 24 2015 Randazzo Joe June 13 2013 Thing X is Becoming Adultswim com Thing X Archived from the original on June 17 2013 Retrieved June 24 2015 Creamer Matthew February 25 2013 Built for Newsprint The Onion Finds New Life In Social Video Advertising Age Retrieved June 24 2015 Marek Lynne November 8 2013 Area men agree print is dead Crain s Chicago Business Retrieved June 24 2015 Restuccia Andrew May 20 2018 How Trump changed everything for The Onion Politico Cohen was fuming over a satirical article published under Trump s name with the headline When You re Feeling Low Just Remember I ll Be Dead In About 15 Or 20 Years On Trump s behalf Cohen demanded that The Onion immediately remove the article and apologize This commentary goes way beyond defamation and if not immediately removed I will take all actions necessary to ensure your actions do not go without consequence Cohen wrote according to a copy of the email provided to POLITICO Guide yourself accordingly When You re Feeling Low Just Remember I ll Be Dead In About 15 Or 20 Years The Onion January 23 2013 Oremus Will June 19 2014 Area Humor Site Discovers Clickbait Slate Retrieved June 24 2015 Shaw Lucas Sherman Alex November 13 2014 Satirist Onion Inc Said to Hire Adviser for Sale BloombergBusiness Retrieved June 24 2015 Kafka Peter November 14 2014 Onion CEO Sure We re for Sale But Mostly We Just Want Money So Make an Offer Memo Re code Retrieved June 24 2015 Marek Lynne June 6 2015 Area man to become CEO of the Onion Crain s Chicago Business Retrieved June 24 2015 Channick Robert June 8 2015 Steve Hannah stepping down as CEO of The Onion Chicago Tribune Retrieved June 24 2015 Welcome The A V Club s new sister 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Wit May 21 2014 Retrieved February 13 2015 Sex House A Hilarious New Web Series From The Onion Strips Away The Real World s Boring Subtlety Mediaite July 12 2012 Retrieved October 23 2012 Goodbye to Sex House the Best Show of the Summer Gawker Retrieved October 23 2012 Sex House and the Refusal to Fuck Jacobin Retrieved October 23 2012 Aguilar Mario October 17 2012 The Onion s First TED Talk Parody Is Freaking Hilarious Because It Seems So Real Gizmodo Retrieved June 5 2018 Tepper Rachel October 11 2012 The Onion Debuts Fake Food Show Porkin Across America The Huffington Post Retrieved February 18 2015 The Onion Movie at IMDb Mathis Lilley Ben February 27 2006 What Ever Happened to that Sketchy Onion Film Area Satirists Stay in the Picture New York Magazine Intelligencer Retrieved June 24 2015 Swenson Kyle June 30 2014 The Onion Founders Locked in Hilarious Palm Beach County Lawsuit New Times Broward Palm Beach Retrieved June 24 2015 Romenesko Jim November 25 2011 Onion Radio News 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Retrieved June 24 2015 Congress Threatens To Leave D C Unless New Capitol Is Built The Onion May 29 2002 Archived from the original on February 23 2010 Retrieved March 23 2011 Chu Henry June 8 2002 U S satire tricks Beijing paper Satire fools Chinese paper Daily steals prints Onion article on plan for new Capitol The San Francisco Chronicle Retrieved June 24 2015 Chu Henry June 13 2002 Beijing Newspaper Retreats Apologizes for Capitol Gaffe Los Angeles Times Retrieved June 24 2015 Lawson Richard March 26 2009 Jimmy Fallon s Set Ups Now Funnier Than His Punchlines Gawker com Retrieved August 29 2014 One giant slip in Bangladesh news BBC News September 4 2009 Retrieved May 25 2010 The Onion 1000 Corriere della Sera 0 noiseFromAmeriKa March 23 2011 Retrieved June 25 2015 Lars Von Trier med kontroversiell Danmark reklame adressa no March 23 2011 Archived from the original on February 19 2013 Retrieved June 25 2015 Bershad Jon November 26 2010 FoxNation com Reposts Anti Obama Article From 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March 28 2014 Ed Farrell Arizona Vice Mayor Shamed For Praising Fred Phelps After Being Confused By Satirical Article The Huffington Post Retrieved March 28 2014 Webber Katherine March 29 2014 Ariz Vice Mayor Apologizes After Mistakenly Praising Westboro s Fred Phelps on Facebook Shame on Me The Christian Post Retrieved June 25 2015 Ruf Sarah March 25 2014 Farrell apologizes for pro Westboro Facebook post Maricopa Monitor Retrieved January 14 2018 Ex Fifa vice president Jack Warner swallows Onion spoof The Guardian Retrieved May 31 2015 Vucic apologises for false statement on window washers in US N1 September 15 2018 Retrieved September 17 2018 Ex IGP Musa Hassan gets flak over Osama bin Laden article The Star October 13 2019 Retrieved October 14 2019 Malone Noreen August 30 2013 The Onion Is The Country s Best Op Ed Page Seriously New Republic Retrieved September 1 2014 a b Weigel David September 3 2013 The Onion Not Funny A SlatePitches Special Report Slate Retrieved September 1 2014 Gray Rosie August 28 2013 The Onion Denies Taking A Serious Line On Syria BuzzFeed Retrieved September 1 2014 a b Rensin Emmett February 5 2014 The Onion Has Become America s Finest Marxist News Source New Republic Retrieved July 16 2014 Garden Joe May 16 2019b Area Man Regrets Helping Turn Joe Biden into a Meme Vice Archived from the original on May 17 2019 Retrieved May 19 2019 White House staff passed around Onion article parodying Jared Kushner The Independent April 2 2017 Archived from the original on June 18 2022 Retrieved April 3 2017 Seelye Katharine Q October 24 2005 Protecting the Presidential Seal No Joke The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 19 2018 Seelye Katharine Q October 24 2005 Protecting the Presidential Seal No Joke The New York Times Retrieved June 25 2015 Evans Morgan May 3 2010 The Onion Obama Attends The White House Maintenance Staff Annual Dinner VIDEO Huffington Post Retrieved June 25 2015 a b Terdiman Daniel February 24 2013 The Onion deletes offensive tweet about child Oscar nominee CNET Retrieved February 26 2013 a b Lopez Korina February 25 2013 The Onion issues apology for tasteless Twitter remark USA Today Retrieved February 26 2013 a b The Onion Apologizes For Offensive Actress Tweet NBC Chicago February 25 2013 Retrieved February 26 2013 Lotz CJ February 25 2013 Former Onion Staffers Denounce CEO s Apology For Quvenzhane Wallis Tweet BuzzFeed Retrieved February 26 2013 WWE Staff Forced To Shoot Aggressive Wrestler After Child Climbs Into Steel Cage theonion com Vol 53 no 23 June 16 2017 Johny Payne June 19 2017 WWE News Parody news website under fire for article about WWE killing Big Show sportskeeda com a b Treisman Rachel October 4 2022 The man who wrote The Onion s Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously NPR Retrieved October 5 2022 Brief of The Onion as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner PDF Archived PDF from the original on October 4 2022 Retrieved October 5 2022 a b Medina Eduardo October 4 2022 Area Man Is Arrested for Parody The Onion Files a Supreme Court Brief The New York Times Retrieved October 5 2022 Brief of The Onion p 8 Further reading EditBerkowitz Dan Schwartz David Asa 2016 Miley CNN and The Onion When fake news becomes realer than real Journalism Practice 10 1 1 17 doi 10 1080 17512786 2015 1006933 S2CID 142931957 Brodie Ian 2018 Pretend News False News Fake News The Onion as Put On Prank and Legend The Journal of American Folklore 131 522 451 459 doi 10 5406 jamerfolk 131 522 0451 ISSN 0021 8715 JSTOR 10 5406 jamerfolk 131 522 0451 S2CID 165844528 Coogan Tom 2013 Usually I Love The Onion but This Time You ve Gone Too Far Disability Humour and Transgression Journal of Literary amp Cultural Disability Studies 7 1 1 17 doi 10 3828 jlcds 2013 1 ISSN 1757 6466 S2CID 143591650 Holland Edward C Levy Adam 2018 The Onion and the geopolitics of satire Popular Communication 16 3 182 195 doi 10 1080 15405702 2017 1397674 S2CID 149307551 Fife Jane 2016 Peeling The Onion Satire and the Complexity of Audience Response Rhetoric Review 35 4 322 334 doi 10 1080 07350198 2016 1215000 S2CID 151462545 Kaye Sharon M 2010 The Onion and Philosophy Fake News Story True Alleges Indignant Area Professor Open Court Publishing ISBN 978 0 8126 9687 5 Leporati Matthew Jacklosky Rob 2021 Peeling The Onion Pop culture satire in the writing classroom Isn t it Ironic Routledge ISBN 978 1 003 08035 0 Marx Nick 2015 Radio voices digital downloads bridging old and new media in the Onion Radio News podcast Comedy Studies 6 2 107 117 doi 10 1080 2040610X 2015 1083166 S2CID 193011281 Sinkovich Justin Brindisi Jerry 2016 Company Profile The Art Influence and Business of Satire Peeling Back the Layers of The Onion International Journal of Arts Management 18 2 75 85 ISSN 1480 8986 JSTOR 44989652 Stevens Elise M McIntyre Karen 2019 The Layers of The Onion The Impact of Satirical News on Affect and Online Sharing Behaviors Electronic News 13 2 78 92 doi 10 1177 1931243119850264 S2CID 196184028 Waisanen Don J 2011 Crafting Hyperreal Spaces for Comic Insights The Onion News Network s Ironic Iconicity Communication Quarterly 59 5 508 528 doi 10 1080 01463373 2011 615690 S2CID 144663611 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Onion Official website Portals Chicago Comedy Internet Journalism United States Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Onion amp oldid 1132404837, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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