"'98 Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal": In 1998. [12][93][94][95][96], 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. [218], According to Rensin, examples of indictments of false consciousness, commodity fetishization and valorization of the invisible hand also abound. "Infographics", with a bulleted lists of jokes on a theme. This account was disputed by an editor of The Onion, Cole Bolton, during an event at the University of Chicago. Club and formerly ran ClickHole. [citation needed], In January 2017, it was announced that The Onion was partnering with Lionsgate Films and production company Serious Business to develop multiple film projects. 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. Unless New Capitol Is Built": On June 7, 2002, "Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport": On the March 24, 2009 broadcast of, "Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked": In September 2009, two, "Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By, "Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail": In November 2010, the. "If a person is beautiful on the inside", Siegel said, "looks don't really matter". Also in 2003, editor Robert Siegel quit his day-to-day role at The Onion[40] to focus on writing screenplays full-time. (Memo)", "Steve Hannah stepping down as CEO of The Onion", "Welcome The A.V. Chad Nackers—The Onion’s head writer—will take over as the role of editor-in-chief. [229][230], This article is about the satirical U.S. newspaper. After two years of being in limbo, the film was released directly on DVD on June 3, 2008. "I’m excited to see what we can do with Univision behind us. [176] Series produced were: 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. I get the feeling that the print version is read by people hanging out in bars". [84], In 2006, The Onion launched a YouTube channel, which was structured as a parody of modern American television news programs. "Obama Openly Asks Nation Why On Earth He Would Want To Serve For Another Term": On January 7, 2012, "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex": On February 3, 2012, U.S. All the latest politics coverage from The Onion, America's finest news source. The publication's humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday events as newsworthy, surreal, or alarming, such as "Rotation of Earth Throws Entire North American Continent into Darkness". 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. [133][134], On September 21, 2015, StarWipe—a spinoff sister site of The A.V. [5] In 1999, comedian Bob Odenkirk praised the publication as "the best comedy writing in the country". The Onion is an American satirical digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news. A source familiar with the situation said that departures were partially due to disagreements about the direction the site was taking under the ownership of Univision. [32][62], 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. [24], 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. [162] 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. [17][18][19] Haise left The Onion after 15 years and eventually opened a custom framing shop in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. "Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage": In September 2011. And it isn't Monthly Review, Political Affairs, World Socialist Website, or Worker's Vanguard. "We've plotted our takeover of the film industry for some time", said Kyle Ryan, vice president of Onion Studios, in a wry statement. "[99], 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. [1] The Onion began publishing online in the spring of 1996. 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. [163][164], 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. "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. [58][59][60][61], In July 2000, The Onion's editor Robert Siegel was named one of People magazine's most eligible bachelors. [140], In September 2017, it was announced that the site's editor-in-chief Cole Bolton and executive editor Ben Berkley were stepping down from their posts. [15][57][78][79][80][81][82][83], 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). [219], 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. "[137], In January 2016, CEO Mike McAvoy announced that Univision Communications had 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. [85] 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. "[113][117][118][119][120], 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. On February 3, 2009, The Onion launched a spin-off of the Onion News Network called the Onion Sports Network. "[184], The Onion Radio News was an audio podcast/radio show produced by The Onion from 1999 and 2009. Rather, the vanguard of revolution—the paper most dedicated to the overthrowing capitalism in the United States today—is none other than The Onion. [6], The Onion also runs The A.V. [135] It was closed on June 17, 2016. [citation needed], 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. An Onion article then made fun of the starry-eyed 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 company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin. We are, in fact, still a solvent independently owned American company. Noreen Malone characterized the publication as having a left-leaning outlook by stating:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, The best op-eds in the country are written by the staff of The Onion, though they're often published as news articles. 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. Trump boys. 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. [188], 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.[189]. "It's like an Onion joke. [23], In a 1994 interview with U. Home Latest Politics Sports Local Entertainment The Topical OGN Opinion. [222], The Onion responded with a formal request to use the seal in accordance with the executive order, while maintaining that its use was legitimate. 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