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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 6:41pm on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | The Onion Teams with Comedy Central to Produce Half-Hour Comedy Pilot
Variety reported on November 5, 2009:
"The series is designed to appeal to both casual and hardcore fans of sports as well as the Onion's well-defined style of humor.
Recent headlines on OSN include "SEC Replay Official Overturns Roe v. Wade" and "Mark McGwire to Teach Cardinal Hitters at What Point in Swing to Evade Congressional Questioning."
The full story:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010913.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:31pm on Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | In the September 3, 2009 issue, fake news source The Onion reported that astronaut Neil Armstrong had been persuaded that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked. Several newspapers in Bangladesh (the New Nation and the Daily Manab Zamin) picked up the story and ran it as legitimate news.
The Onion story lede:
"Apollo 11 mission commander and famed astronaut Neil Armstrong shocked reporters at a press conference Monday, announcing he had been convinced that his historic first step on the moon was part of an elaborate hoax orchestrated by the United States government."
The full fake story:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/conspiracy_theorist_convinces_neil
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:29pm on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | On May 22, 2002, The Onion reported that a factual error has been found on the Internet:
LONGMONT, CO—The Information Age was dealt a stunning blow Monday, when a factual error was discovered on the Internet. The error was found on TedsUltimateBradyBunch.com, a Brady Bunch fan site that incorrectly listed the show's debut year as 1968, not 1969.
Caryn Wisniewski, a Pueblo, CO, legal secretary and diehard Brady Bunch fan, came across the mistake while searching for information about the show's first-season cast.
"When I first saw 1968 on the web page, I thought, 'Wow, apparently, all those Brady Bunch books I've read listing 1969 as the show's first year were wrong,'" Wisniewski told reporters at a press conference. "But even though I obviously trusted the Internet, I was still kind of puzzled. So I checked other Brady Bunch fan sites, and all of them said 1969. After a while, it slowly began to sink in that the World Wide Web might be tainted with unreliable information."
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Maui
Maui, Hawaii | Posted at 3:36pm on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | I agree with Vidalia and being from Hawaii makes me tear up even more. I too love the Onion and remember it from when I spent some time in DC when I got it in print, but do love the online version as well. So its printed in Denver huh?
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Vidalia
| Posted at 3:12pm on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | This truly is "America's Finest News Source" for a number of reasons. 1) Just naming yourself that takes the same kind of audacity as turning real news into fake news and branding it as real news. 2) It has succeeded in putting some humor into an otherwise dreary and serious world. Every issue facing the world can, at some point, be seen through a lens of humor. This humor can help open up the holes we get our minds and therefore ourselves stuck in, and help to push solutions forward. 3) The writing is superb. The authors have so much creativity and liberty that they've taken freedom of speech and ran with it, while holding scissors.
4) It started in Colorado, the best damn state in the union (well tied for 3rd with Alaska, Hawai'i is 1st).
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