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Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam
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.
I have an Onion Pulitzer in my pants.
Don't you have therapy you're supposed to be going to, Mr. Congressman?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I was going to say credible, but same post otherwise.
Don't forget that there are Pulitzer Prizes available in many categories. Should they win an award for reporting breaking news? Of course not. But they could be deserving of a prize in the Commentary, Criticism, or Editorial writing categories. And of course, there's always the fiction category.
If anything, The Onion has made people more aware of the news simply by mocking it. Compared to the press-release journalism most news outlets use, it is actually quite the writing accomplishment.
But only to morons. Every week some Obama onion article makes the rounds on Facebook with conservatives screaming "ZOMG OBAMA IS BUILDING AN ABORTIONPLEX!!"
The Onion is almost as cynical and hysterically funny as Fox News. Almost.
Nevermind that scientists ripped it for being terrible science. But if it pushes the agenda you want to hear, so be it.
I hear scientists also ripped apart evolution and the link between smoking and cancer too. My own research has been subjected to withering criticism from time to time as well, you might call that "ripping it apart."
You -could- conclude that diverse interpretations exist on all data, the truth is often hard to identify, most scientific issues are complicated with plenty of room for disagreement. Maybe one should conclude that scientists say a lot of things, but that doesn't make it true. Sometimes one or a few scientists may be right and the rest wrong, sometimes not.
Wait, what the hell am I saying? It's far better and easier to insist that if a scientist said it, it must be true, even if other scientists say otherwise. Global warming isn't happening, and my research is right no matter what my committee or reviewers say! There's just a massive conspiracy among evil scientists to get rid of our beloved SUVs, our dangerous coal power, our delicious cigarettes, convince us we're apes, and deny me my PhD!
Either way, creating a movie about environmental awareness while flying everywhere on a private jet apparently gets you a prize dedicated to Peace.
Wait wait wait wait wait... you're telling me that a POLITICIAN... is... is.. is a HYPOCRITE?!?!?
[falls dead of shock]
Well, that clearly proves that whatever he was arguing for was false. What's an "ad-homenim argument"? Doesn't matter I guess.
despite publicly stating he wanted the United States to get rid of their oil dependency.
... just like every U.S. president in, what, the last 50 years? Certainly every one in my lifetime.
Saying you want the US to get rid of our oil dependency is like saying you support the troops or think America is great: it's shit every politician says, so you should pretty much just disregard it.
To be fair to Obama, that means he's started half as many wars as Bush...
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A Fictional novel can win a Pulitzer too, for example.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
And if he ends any, he'll outscore Bush in that category, too.
Also, they gave the prize to a terrorist one time.
Poor Dave Barry, finally gets a movie made from one of his stories, and it turns out his farce about a stolen atomic bomb finally makes it to theaters mere months after 9/11.
And it had Tim Allen in it.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff