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Thursday, April 01, 2004
Crying Wolf Leaves Onion Limited Room for Manoeuvre
The publishers of satirical news site The Onion, having produced 4,259 satirical or just plain made-up news items in the past year, was feeling a little hamstrung as a wave of contrived hilarity swept Planet Earth.
Between 7:42 and 7:44 a.m. today, the publication ran stories on the 30-year bond, global warming, and early childhood education research. Not eliciting the desired (or any) response, for the following hour it ran a long, streaming clip of Tony Blair holding forth on the perils of WMD's (which elicited a few chuckles from Jon Stewart's research staff, but otherwise little response).
Asked by a reporter "if that was it" for April Fool's Day, an Onion staffer sounded downcast. "We got nothin'," she admitted.
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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