The Onion
Type	Parody newspaper
Format	Tabloid (also radio, video and websites)
Owner	Onion, Inc.
Editor	Scott Dikkers
Founded	1988
Headquarters	536 Broadway 10th Floor New York, NY 10012 United States
Circulation	710,000
Website: theonion.com

The Onion is a United States-based parody newspaper published weekly in print and daily online. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 710,000^[1] and says 67 percent of its Web site viewers are between 18 and 44 years old.^[2] Image File history File links The_Onion. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ... Scott Dikkers is a United States comedy writer and filmmaker. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the state. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a good deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene. ... The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. ...

The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice. Look up editorial, op-ed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...

A second part of the newspaper is a non-satirical entertainment section called The A.V. Club that features interviews and reviews of various newly-released media, and other weekly features. The print edition also contains previews of upcoming live entertainment specific to cities where a print edition is published. The online incarnation of The A.V. Club has its own domain, includes its own regular features (including the syndicated weekly sex advice column Savage Love), A.V. Club blogs and reader forums, and presents itself as a separate entity from The Onion itself. Savage Love is a syndicated sex-advice column by Dan Savage, appearing weekly in several dozen newspapers, mainly free city papers in the U.S. and Canada, but also newspapers in Europe and Asia. ...

History

The Onion's office in New York City.

The Onion was founded in 1988 and originally published in Madison, Wisconsin by two juniors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson; they sold it to colleagues the following year. Prior to founding, The Onion was a four page spread of satirical news first printed in 1986 by undergraduate students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's dormitory Tripp Hall. Cessation of this early version of The Onion was reported at the time to be due to the University Administration's objection to a business venture being operated from the dormitory. The Onion was at first only a success in a limited number of cities and towns, notably those with major universities (e.g. Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Boulder, Champaign-Urbana). The creation of its website in 1996 allowed it to receive national attention. In 2000 as the publication had broken through to the mass market, The Onion was approached by Comedy Central for a buyout that would broaden the scope and reach of The Onion's brand of satire into other forms of media. While the editorial staff was enthusiastic about the move, the deal was ultimately scuttled by then-owner Peter Haise when his negotiations with Comedy Central fell flat and alienated Comedy Central's management. Despondent over the botched deal, the editorial staff threatened to leave en masse for New York City with or without The Onion affiliation. In a compromise motivated to keep the company alive, in early 2001 the company relocated its offices to New York City. Nevertheless, the paper continues to make occasional Madison references, placing odd stories in surrounding towns or running photographs of local landmarks to illustrate stories set elsewhere. In April 2007, The Onion launched 'The Onion News Network,' a web video send up of 24 hour TV news. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 6. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 6. ... For other uses, see Madison (disambiguation). ... University of Wisconsin redirects here. ... University of Wisconsin redirects here. ... This article is about Milwaukee in Wisconsin. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City 234. ... The City of Boulder ( , Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ... The Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area, also known as Chambana, is a region in east central Illinois. ... Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel in the United States. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

The paper's founders went on to become publishers of other alternative weeklies: Keck of the Seattle weekly The Stranger and Johnson of Albuquerque's Weekly Alibi. Recent cover of Portland, Oregons Willamette Week An alternative weekly is a type of weekly newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. ... Seattle redirects here. ... The Stranger is a weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, noted for its social commentary, political opinion, arts, comics and music coverage, and local news items. ... “Albuquerque” redirects here. ... The Weekly Alibi is a free weekly newspaper published in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...

"People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from," said President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews, "and when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me...literally that his uncle said he should call it The Onion when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich. They had literally just cut up the onion and put it on bread." According to Editorial Manager Chet Clem, their food budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white bread and onions.^[3] Reportedly, it was Chris Johnson's uncle, Nells Johnson, who came up with the idea to name the paper The Onion.^[4] Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ...

Fictional history

Officially, the paper purports to be over 250 years old, having originally published in the late 18th Century. It was named "the Onion" because that was the only English word the paper's immigrant founder, Herman Ulysses Zweibel, knew at the time. (Zwiebel is German for onion - note the difference in spelling.) (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

In 1888 Zweibel's 20-year-old son, T. Herman Zweibel became editor, a position he supposedly holds to this day despite being over a century old and largely senile. For much of the 20th Century the paper was highly reactionary and violently opposed every social reform the century brought forward, from women's suffrage to married characters sleeping together in the same bed on television. For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... T. Herman Zweibel (born 1868) is a fictional character, the long term editor of The Onion, whose adventures were recounted in a series of often bizarre editorials, ending in December 2000, where he was leaving the earth in a rocket-ship. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Reactionary (or reactionist) is a political epithet, generally used as a pejorative, originally applied in the context of the French Revolution to counter-revolutionaries who wished to restore the real or imagined conditions of the monarchical Ancien Régime. ...

Fictional chronology

• 1756: Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel founded the Mercantile-Onion (Our Dumb Century)
• 1850: F. Siegfreid's son, Herman U., took over the company.
• 1888: T. Herman Zweibel, assumes editorial directorship^[5]
• 1892: Onion 24-Hour Television News Network (ONN) founded. It can now be seen in 811 countries around the world.
• 1896: T. Herman Zweibel, F. Siegfried's grandson, took over the company, upon death of Herman U. Zweibel.^[5]
• 1958: Zweibel was court-ordered to retire.
• c. 1960: Onion Radio founded
• 2000: Zweibel left Earth itself (The Final Frontier, T. Herman Zweibel).^[6]

Distribution

The Onion's printed edition is distributed free in Madison, Milwaukee, New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver/Boulder, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, and Washington, D.C.^[2][7]. It is also sold in bookstores worldwide, including the United Kingdom, and is available by mail through paid subscription. For other uses, see Madison (disambiguation). ... For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City 234. ... A map of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. ... Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ... The City of Boulder ( , Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... The subscription business model is a business model that has long been used by magazines and record clubs, but the application of this model is spreading. ...

Regular features

Editorial Manager Chet Clem and President Sean Mills.

Regular features of The Onion include: Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 6. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 6. ...

• "STATshot", an illustrated statistical snapshot which parodies "USA Today Snapshots"
• The "Infograph" (a.k.a. "Infographic"), with a bulleted list of items on a theme.
• Point-Counterpoint
• Guest opinion pieces and regular columnists
• Bizarre horoscopes
• "The ONION in History": a front page produced in the look of newspapers of an earlier era, from the book "Our Dumb Century"
• "In the News" photograph and caption with no accompanying story (such as "Frederick's of Anchorage Debuts Crotchless Long Underwear", "National Association Advances Colored Person", and "Owls are Assholes")
• "American Voices" (formerly called "What Do You Think?"), a mock vox populi survey on a topical current event. There are six respondents for each topic who seem to have been chosen intentionally to represent a diverse selection of ages, races, and socio-economic classes. Although their names and professions change every week, photos of the same six people are always used. One of them is often described as a systems analyst.
• An editorial cartoon drawn by "Kelly". The comic—the most controversial feature in The Onion^[3]—is a parody of right-wing cartoons. "Kelly" is a pseudonym of Ward Sutton^[8].

The website was redesigned in 2005: USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ... A horoscope calculated for January 1, 2000 at 12:01:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time in New York City, New York, USA (Longitude: 074W0023 - Latitude: 40N4251). In astrology, a horoscope is a chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, the astrological aspects, and... Our Dumb Century is a satirical humor book written by the staff of The Onion and published by Three Rivers Press in 1999. ... Fredericks of Hollywood is a well known retailer of lingerie in the United States, with stores in most modern shopping malls across the USA. The business was started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. ... long underwear Long underwear, often called long johns, is a style of two-piece underwear with long sleeves and long pantlegs that is normally worn during cold weather. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential hate organizations in the United States. ... Jericho, see Vox Populi (Jericho episode). ... An opinion poll is a survey of opinion from a particular sample. ... Systems analysis is the science dealing with analysis of complex, large scale systems and the interactions within those systems. ... William Lyon Mackenzie King is freed from his Conscription promise by Johnny Canuck. ... Ward Sutton is an illustrator and writer born in Minneapolis and based in New York City, whose comic strip, Sutton Impact (formerly Schlock n Roll), has been published in The Village Voice since 1995. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• All archives were made free, and Onion Premium, a failed attempt at a paid-subscriber model section of the site, was discontinued.
• "What Do You Think?" became "American Voices," with the question updated daily, and only three responders for each question
• "In the News" was retitled "From the Print Edition"
• The Onion began publishing web-only content on a daily basis, such as a daily fictional stock market analysis titled "Stock Watch" (one of which appears in the print edition every week), a web opinion poll titled "QuickPoll" (since discontinued), "National News Highlights" of three regional stories, The Onion Weekender (a parody of PARADE magazine) and The Onion Magazine (a parody of The New York Times Magazine), and The President's Weekly Radio Address.
• The nationally syndicated Onion Radio News, a brief audio clip read by anchor Doyle Redland, became a daily feature. In early 2006, Onion Radio News podcast was launched, and quickly shot to #1 on the iTunes list of top podcasts.
• A sports section was introduced, having archival material from old issues in addition to new articles (such as "Matt Leinart Wins Beauty Portion of 2006 NFL Draft") and rotating headlines such as "New York Rangers Honor Proud Madison Square Garden Tradition by Losing".

The Onion website is updated every day, most significantly on Tuesday afternoons, and The Onion newspaper is distributed on Wednesdays. A stock market is a market for the trading of company stock, and derivatives of same; both of these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. ... An opinion poll is a survey of opinion from a particular sample. ... PARADE is a magazine, distributed as a Sunday supplement in hundreds of newspapers in the United States. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Pete S. Mueller is an American cartoonist and voice actor. ... Matthew Stephen Leinart (born May 11, 1983 in Santa Ana, California) is an American football quarterback (QB) for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. ... The 2006 National Football League Draft , the 71st in league history, took place in New York City at Radio City Music Hall on April 29 and April 30, 2006. ... The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York, U.S.A. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ...

Reporters and editors

Wikinews has related news:

The Onion: An interview with 'America's Finest News Source'

The Onion's fictional editor is T. Herman Zweibel (Zwiebel is German for onion, and also close to the name Zweifel, a family closely associated with the Madison newspaper The Capital Times), who has "held the position since 1901" and is rather insane; the real editor is currently Scott Dikkers, the managing editor is Peter Koechley, and the current writing staff comprises Mike DiCenzo, Megan Ganz, Joe Garden, Dan Guterman, Todd Hanson, Chris Karwowski, John Krewson, Seth Reiss, and Maria Schneider. Past writers have included Mark Banker, Max Cannon, Amie Barrodale, Rich Dahm, Janet Ginsburg, Tim Harrod, David Javerbaum, Ben Karlin, Carol Kolb, Tom Scharpling, Robert Siegel and Jack Szwergold. The Onion does not accept unsolicited freelance contributions. The Onion News Network is directed by Will Graham and the Head Writer is former Onion Editor Carol Kolb. Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... T. Herman Zweibel (born 1868) is a fictional character, the long term editor of The Onion, whose adventures were recounted in a series of often bizarre editorials, ending in December 2000, where he was leaving the earth in a rocket-ship. ... The Capital Times is a daily Monday - Saturday newspaper published in Madison, Wisconsin by Capital Newspapers. ... A mental illness or mental disorder refers to one of many mental health conditions characterized by distress, impaired cognitive functioning, atypical behavior, emotional dysregulation, and/or maladaptive behavior. ... Scott Dikkers is a United States comedy writer and filmmaker. ... Maria Schneider is an American humorist, cartoonist and illustrator best known for her work with the satirical online newspaper The Onion. ... Max Cannon lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and is the creator of the independent comic Red Meat. ... Richard Dahm (often credited as Rich Dahm) is an American comedy writer from Wisconsin. ... Tim Harrod is an American comedy writer who has written for The Onion, The Late Show With David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... David Javerbaum is an American comedy writer and the executive producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. ... Ben Karlin (born c. ... Carol Kolb is an American comedy writer. ... Tom Scharpling is the host of The Best Show on WFMU, a 3-hour comedy, music and talk radio program which airs every Tuesday night on New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU. He is also a supervising producer and writer for the television series Monk, on the USA Network, as... Born in 1968, Yakov Itzhak Szwergold (Jack Szwergold) was raised by his Polish/Jewish immigrant parents (Miriam and Hersz) in the modest Brooklyn seaside neighborhood of Brighton Beach. ... Carol Kolb is an American comedy writer. ...

The Onion publishes several columns by (fictional) regular and guest writers. The regular contributors include:

• Jim Anchower, a slacker and stoner with a different job every few weeks, whose musical tastes are stuck in 1970s rock and roll.
• Jean Teasdale, an overweight nerdish woman with kitsch tastes, whose constantly upbeat attitude always finds the bright side of her otherwise depressing white trash life. Her column, "A Room of Jean's Own," was originally called "The Onion Fat Lady."
• Smoove B, a smooth talking ladies' man.
• Jackie Harvey, a clueless celebrity spotter.
• Herbert Kornfeld, Accounts Receivable Supervisor, an accountant who was raised on the streets and speaks in gangsta rap-isms and ebonics. Killed on May 1, 2007.^[9]
• Larry Groznic, an overweight fanboy.
• Gorzo the Mighty, the Emperor of the Universe, villain in the style of 1930s science fiction films.
• Department Head Rawlings, the mysterious head of an unnamed organization of international spies.

Former contributors include: Jim Anchower is the fictional author of “The Cruise”, a column that appears in the satirical magazine The Onion. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Cannabis culture. ... Jean Teasdale is a fictional columnist for the weekly satirical newspaper The Onion. ... Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ... For other uses, see White trash (disambiguation). ... Smoove B is a fictional columnist for the satirical newspaper The Onion. ... Jackie Harvey is a fictional gossip columnist for The Onion. ... Herbert Kornfeld, also known as H-Dog, was a recurring fictional columnist for the parody newspaper The Onion. ... Accounts receivable is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of customers who owe money to a person, company or organization for goods and services that have been provided to the customer. ... Gangsta can refer to: Eye dialect/Slang for a member of a gang, a gangster. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Larry Groznic is a recurring fictional columnist for the parody newspaper The Onion who writes indignantly about perceived crimes against his dweebish subcultural fandom obsessions. ... Fanboy is a term used to describe an individual (usually male, though the feminine version fangirl may be used for females) who is utterly devoted to a single fannish subject, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession. ... Gorzo the Mighty, Emperor of the Universe is a columnist for the fictional newspaper The Onion. ... Department Head Rawlings is a fictional columnist for the parody newspaper The Onion. ...

• Arch Danielson, an elderly man who wrote "The Silver Screen", a series of rambling, non-sensical movie reviews that often diverted towards random topics. His persona was retired around 1998, in favor of Jackie Harvey.

Onion News Network videos

In March 2007, The Onion launched The Onion News Network, a daily web video broadcast that had been in production since sometime in mid-2006 with a story about an illegal immigrant taking an executive's $800,000 a year job for $600,000 a year. The Onion has reportedly invested about $1 million in the production and has hired 15 new staffers to focus on the production of this video broadcast.^[10] Carol Kolb, former editor-in-chief of The Onion, is the ONN's head writer. Carol Kolb is an American comedy writer. ...

In a Wikinews interview in November 2007, Onion President Sean Mills said the ONN has been a huge hit. "We get over a million downloads a week, which makes it one of the more successful produced-for-the-Internet videos," said Mills. "If we’re not the most successful, we’re one of the most. It is a 24 hour news network. We have a new show that is part of the platform, but we also have a Sunday morning talk show that’s called In The Know and we just launched a morning show this last week called Today Now. It has been really exciting; we’ll have some new shows, show some archive footage and do some more in sports over the next year."^[3] Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ...

Film

In 2003, Fox Searchlight Pictures was onboard to release a movie written by The Onion staff. Tentatively titled The Untitled Onion Movie, it was to be directed by music video directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire and written by then Onion editor Robert Siegel and writer Todd Hanson. After delays and middling previews to test audiences, the film was shelved and eventually dropped by Fox. At some point in the process, directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire and writer Robert Siegel walked away from the project. Fox Searchlight Pictures logo. ...

In 2006, New Regency Productions took over the production of the troubled project. As of 2006 the film's fate is still in limbo with studio heads still at odds with current Onion management as to what to do with the film. No new director has been named to helm the project and Mr. Show star Scott Aukerman has been recruited to help rescue the project. Reportedly the studio would like to keep one hour of already completed footage in the final film and film new material to flesh it out, while current Onion management is rumored to be leaning towards scrapping all shot footage and starting from scratch. New Regency Productions is a production company founded in 1991 by Arnon Milchan. ... Development hell is media-industry jargon for a film, television screenplay, or computer game[1] (or sometimes just a concept or idea) getting stuck in development and never going into production. ... Mr. ... Scott Aukerman (born January 8, 1964 in Lehua Landing, Hawaii) is an actor best known for appearing on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program, Mr. ...

In a March 15, 2007 interview Scott Aukerman was quoted as saying “Do people still use the term 'dead standstill'?” in response to the question, “Scott, how is the Onion movie coming along?” Sometime in March 2007 after that interview was printed, the listing for The Untitled Onion Movie at the Internet Movie Database mysteriously disappeared.^[11] Additionally, Onion, Inc. President Sean Mills has indicated The Onion is no longer associated with the film project.^[12][13] In August 2007, the IMDb listing was restored. Scott Aukerman (born January 8, 1964 in Lehua Landing, Hawaii) is an actor best known for appearing on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program, Mr. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...

The Onion taken seriously

Upon occasion, the straight-faced manner in which The Onion reports non-existent happenings has resulted in outside parties mistakenly citing Onion stories as real news.

• An article on Harry Potter inciting kids to practice witchcraft was believed by many to be real and was forwarded by many "concerned Christians." ^[14] Columnist Ellen Makkai and others who believe the Harry Potter books "recruit" children to Satanism have also been taken in by the article, using quotes from it as "evidence" for their claims. ^[15] The story was quickly exposed as a hoax.

• In 1998, controversial minister Fred Phelps posted the Onion article "'98 Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal" on his "God Hates Fags" website as "proof" that gay people were indeed actively trying to "recruit" others.^{[citation needed]}

• On June 7, 2002, Reuters reported that the Beijing Evening News republished, in the international news page of its June 3 edition, translated portions of "Congress Threatens To Leave D.C. Unless New Capitol Is Built". The story discusses the U.S. Congress's threats to leave Washington for Memphis, Tennessee or Charlotte, North Carolina unless Washington, D.C. built them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome. The article is a parody of U.S. sports franchises' threats to leave their home city unless new stadiums are built for them. The Evening News is Beijing's most popular newspaper, claiming a circulation of 1.25 million.^{[citation needed]} Evening News later retracted the article, responding that some American newspapers "lie intentionally to make money."^{[citation needed]}

• In late March 2004, Deborah Norville of MSNBC presented as genuine an article entitled "Study: 58 Percent Of U.S. Exercise Televised".^[16]

• The Danish television station TV 2 posted a story that took seriously the Onion article titled "Sean Penn Demands To Know What Asshole Took SeanPenn@gmail.com".^[17]

Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. ... This article refers to the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, and is not related to the Westboro Baptist Church of Westboro, Ontario. ... is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pronounced is known as a financial market data provider and a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. ... The Beijing Evening News is a Chinese language newspaper in the Peoples Republic of China from Beijing. ... is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Congress in Joint Session. ... For other uses, see Memphis (disambiguation). ... This article is about the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... Charlotte redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Largest metro area Charlotte metro area Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (900 km)  - % water 9. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the location for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. ... Peking redirects here. ... Deborah Norville (born August 8, 1958 in Dalton, Georgia) is an American television broadcaster and journalist. ... For the news website, see msnbc. ... TV 2 is a Danish government-owned television station broadcasting from Odense on Funen. ...

Presidential Seal dispute

In September 2005, the assistant counsel to President George W. Bush, Grant M. Dixton, wrote a cease-and-desist letter to The Onion, asking the paper to stop using the presidential seal, which is used in an online segment poking fun at the President through parodies of his weekly radio address.^[18] The law governing the Presidential Seal is contained in 18 U.S.C. § 713: George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Title 18 of the US Code deals with Crimes and Criminal Proceedings in five parts: Part I - Crimes Part II - Criminal Procedure Part III - Prisons and Prisoners Part IV - Correction of Youthful Offenders Part V - Immunity of Witnesses Title 18, specifically Part 1 > Chapter 113B > § 2331 and § 2332a(a)), is...

Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (emphasis added)

This section would seem to allow the use of the presidential seal by The Onion.^{[original research?]} However, by Executive Order, President Richard Nixon specifically enumerated the allowed uses of the Presidential Seal which is more restrictive than the above title (Ex. Ord. No. 11649), but which allows for exceptions to be granted upon formal request. An executive order is an edict issued by a member of the executive branch of a government, usually the head of that branch. ...

The Onion has responded with a letter asking for formal use of the Seal in accordance with the Executive Order, while still declaring that the use is legitimate under 18 U.S.C. § 713.

The letter written by Rochelle H. Klaskin, The Onion's lawyer, is quoted in The New York Times as saying "It is inconceivable that anyone would think that, by using the seal, The Onion intends to 'convey... sponsorship or approval' by the president," referring to 18 U.S.C. § 713, but then went on to ask that the letter be considered a formal application asking for permission to use the seal.^{[citation needed]} The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Books

• Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source (1999, ISBN 0-609-80461-8)
• The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 (2000, ISBN 0-609-80463-4)
• Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion (2001, ISBN 0-609-80834-6)
• The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives Volume 13 (2002, ISBN 1-4000-4724-2)
• "Relations Break Down Between U.S. and Them": The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives Volume 14 (2003, ISBN 1-4000-4961-X)
• "Fanfare for the Area Man": The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives Volume 15 (2004, ISBN 1-4000-5455-9)
• "Embedded in America": The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives Volume 16 (2005, ISBN 1-4000-5456-7)
• "Homeland Insecurity": The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Volume 17 (2006, ISBN 0-307-33984-X)
• Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth (Oct. 2007, ISBN 0-316-01842-2)

Our Dumb Century is a satirical humor book written by the staff of The Onion and published by Three Rivers Press in 1999. ...

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• Onion Creators “Clearly” Not Just A Bunch Of Little Capitalists Like Everybody Else
• Peeling the Onion, a video profile by CBC News: The Hour
• U.S. satire tricks Beijing paper, a June 2002 San Francisco Chronicle article
• 'Onion' to Launch San Francisco Print Edition
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• The Untitled Onion Movie
• From the Onion to Comedy Central to the Oscars
• Viacom and The Onion: Parody or Deal?
• 2001 Internal Memo to TheOnion.com Employees
• A Funny Thing: Detailed 2005 Forbes article about the publication's business history and financial turmoil after their NYC move
• Issue #37·34: Coverage of September 11, 2001
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