Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:45AM from the world's-best-newspaper-demands-ironic-credit-it-deserves dept.

Long before Stewart or Colbert were on TV you could count on The Onion to bring you your daily dose of fake or funny news. After the recent publication of their 1000th issue, a small but growing movement has started pushing for the Pulitzer Prize to be awarded to the satirical site. The Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes website encourages readers to submit videos on why they think The Onion deserves the honor. The movement has grown so large that you can find videos from Tom Hanks and Arianna Huffington among the user submissions.

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Re:Precognition? by Abstrackt · 2011-06-21 04:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

My favorite Onion prognostication was "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades".

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Re:Precognition? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-21 05:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

One of their most accurate predictions was surely this one: Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over.