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The Onion was founded as a weekly print newspaper for satirical news in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin, by University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. [15] [16] In 1989, Keck and Johnson sold the paper to Scott Dikkers, who had been contributing cartoons; Peter Haise, a lead advertising rep; and Jonathan Hart Eddy, the IT person, for $16,000 [17] [15] [16] ($19,000 according ...
The best-known example is The Onion, the online version of which started in 1996. [1] These sites are not to be confused with fake news websites, which deliberately publish hoaxes in an attempt to profit from gullible readers.
Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source is a satirical humor book written by the staff of The Onion and published by Three Rivers Press in 1999. The chief editor of the book was Scott Dikkers , with specific sections edited by Robert D. Siegel , Maria Schneider and John Krewson .
Social media users trashed satire site The Onion for making an "evil" joke about the Trump/Harris debate that made light of the people killed and wounded at Trump's rally in July.
In the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the satirical website the Onion overhauled its entire homepage to promote an 8-year-old article about mass shootings it has published nearly ...
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times wrote that Onion News Network makes other satirical news programs "sluggish by comparison", before going on to say: "If the longstanding SNL segment is a sort of introductory course in wringing humor from headlines, and Mr. Stewart's Daily Show is the advance-level class, Onion News Network is graduate ...
The Onion is getting back into the business of print media. The decades-old satire and comedy publication began distribution of print editions this summer and is offering subscriptions for about ...
from 1990 under the title Nový Dikobraz; briefly revived 2004–2005 under the title Dikobraz a Zabaveno; the title Dikobraz translates as "Old World Porcupine". De Nieuwe. Netherlands. Amsterdam. 1991. ongoing. Back after a sabbatical of 25 years, De Nieuwe is the only printed satire magazine in the Netherlands.