The Onion Taken Seriously
I’m not one to act like an elitist snob and make fun of stupid people. Ok, who am I kidding. I do like to make fun of stupid people. Especially those with no sense of humor. Wired News has this great article about how many people take The Onion as serious news.
For those of you who have never read The Onion, it is a satire site with deadpan news articles that are quite humorous. Apparently however, the satire is lost on people. For example, there’s the Chinese reporter, a paragon of journalistic integrity, who plagiarized a news article on the Onion. Then there’s the many groups who held prayer vigils after reading an Onion story concerning a Chinese woman who gave birth to septuplets and has one week to choose one to keep and throw the rest off a mountan top.
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