Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam

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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:No by MozeeToby · 2011-06-21 04:53 · Score: 5, Informative

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.
Precognition? by black+soap · 2011-06-21 04:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

Some of their articles have come true - such as when they announced airlines would begin charging for 1st checked bags, it happened shortly after.
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.
1. 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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2. 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.
Re:Prizes for everyone by TheRaven64 · 2011-06-21 05:56 · Score: 3, Informative

To be fair to Obama, that means he's started half as many wars as Bush...

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Re:Prizes for everyone by black+soap · 2011-06-21 06:10 · Score: 4, Informative

And if he ends any, he'll outscore Bush in that category, too.