Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the eat-that-suckers dept.
mattsucks writes "Reuters is reporting a story about the Beijing Evening News. Apparently, they too believe that everything they read on the internet is true, republishing a story from The Onion. Or at least one of their freelance writers believes it...." This is absolutely great.
Not only is it funny, but also deeply insightful, even for an atheist like me.
-- Reality has a liberal bias
Onion founder's former comments on the issue
by
afflatus_com
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· Score: 5, Interesting
The founder of the Onion was on Jay Leno a while back and discussed the problem at length.
He said that the biggest problem was email forwards from people who consider it a news release, and in the email there is not the rest of the onion's site for context, so people don't know it is a parody.
He said the 2 that generated the most amount of letters from concerned citizens, up to that point in time, was "Chinese woman gives birth to septuplets, doesn't know which one to keep" and "New York to install infant-only dumpsters".
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----- Cast a Cold Eye On Life, on Death Horseman, pass by --W.B. Yeats' gravestone
Holy Fucking Shit
by
Bonker
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· Score: 5, Interesting
As you read through it, you can just see the raw emotions in every article in that issue - it reminds me every day I look at it what that day was like.
The Holy Fucking Shit edition of The Onion was one of the finest pieces of literature serious or satirical published about the September 11 bombings. Before the HFS edition, I merely thought The Onion was funny. Afterwards, I respected The Onion.
In the middle of all the hysteria, screaming panic, and horror, The Onion *dared* to go in and examine the ridiculousness of not only what had happened but what was happening because of it.
Good work guys!
-- The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_do nt_kill.html
Not only is it funny, but also deeply insightful, even for an atheist like me.
Reality has a liberal bias
The founder of the Onion was on Jay Leno a while back and discussed the problem at length.
He said that the biggest problem was email forwards from people who consider it a news release, and in the email there is not the rest of the onion's site for context, so people don't know it is a parody.
He said the 2 that generated the most amount of letters from concerned citizens, up to that point in time, was "Chinese woman gives birth to septuplets, doesn't know which one to keep" and "New York to install infant-only dumpsters".
-----
Cast a Cold Eye
On Life, on Death
Horseman, pass by
--W.B. Yeats' gravestone
As you read through it, you can just see the raw emotions in every article in that issue - it reminds me every day I look at it what that day was like.
The Holy Fucking Shit edition of The Onion was one of the finest pieces of literature serious or satirical published about the September 11 bombings. Before the HFS edition, I merely thought The Onion was funny. Afterwards, I respected The Onion.
In the middle of all the hysteria, screaming panic, and horror, The Onion *dared* to go in and examine the ridiculousness of not only what had happened but what was happening because of it.
Good work guys!
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!