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Fake News Is Illegal Now
John Cook · 04/19/11 02:41PMUnexpected 34th Person Rescued from Chilean Mine
Bryan Ridgell · 10/14/10 01:02PMChopped Onion Makes Us Cry
Ryan Tate · 07/20/09 09:45AMOnion Sale Announcement Monday?
Ryan Tate · 07/17/09 03:43PMHow The Onion Will Sell Out
Ryan Tate · 07/09/09 01:27PMThe Onion Killing Los Angeles and San Francisco Print Editions, Says Source
Ryan Tate · 05/04/09 07:11PMCNN Anchor Moves Up to The Onion
Hamilton Nolan · 02/12/09 11:48AMBarack Obama: President of Make-Believe
Pareene · 06/23/08 01:42PMBarack Obama talked to some governors about the economy Friday but all anyone really paid attention to was the weird pseudo-presidential seal on his podium. It is the eagle from the real-life presidential seal, holding arrows and an olive branch, but it says "Obama for America" on it and he replaced our country's Latin motto with "Yes We Can." So he's obviously un-patriotic, or arrogant, or something? It's going to be a big stupid issue. But even if it was just a bit of fun, we think it was clever. Because yes while everyone castigates the dude for pretending he's already the president, the news will show photos of him standing at that podium with that seal over and over again, making him look really presidential. Also it will remind people of how awesome the Ramones were. Now he'll be thrown in jail, just like they were. (An awesome YouTube video about this is after the jump.)
Maureen Dowd Unconcerned About Fake News
Pareene · 05/06/08 02:26PMTimes op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd sat down with the kids at the Harvard Political Review and discussed the important issue of "real news" verus "fake news." The debate has raged for years now, and it pits the network evening news against Comedy Central, basically. The New York Times counts as "real news," even though they publish Dowd's column. Dowd, obv, is unworried about this pretend news crisis. Because, she would like to remind you, she invented it! Sort of.
"McCain Girls" A Prank, Mercifully
Ryan Tate · 04/13/08 10:21PMThe three women who dubbed themselves the "McCain Girls" and made a series of YouTube videos on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate were working for 23/6, the "humor" site from IAC/Huffington Post, and their entire campaign was a joke. To hear 23/6 President Sarah Bernard tell it, the first video was supposed to be an obvious parody of the Obama Girl videos, but no one understood that. Then 23/6 decided to keep the "prank" going as long as possible, which turned out to be one month. McCain watched the video repeatedly, he told Fox News in the clip after the jump, but his description of it as "very entertaining" hints that he knew something was fishy.
Never Forget '23/6'
Pareene · 01/18/08 02:09PM2nd bigwig lib backs out of 'Colbert'
Pareene · 01/04/08 01:16PM23/6 Is On The Internet Now
Choire · 11/09/07 09:21AMGuess what's live today? 23/6, the IAC-Huffpo comedy site that is pretty much two years in the making! Back in August, we pretty thoroughly trashed the beta. And now... here we are. (Launching a website on a Friday!?!? Do not ever do this, by the way.) So, really, what's to say? Well: Is there anything less funny than comedy? And: It's like Newser, but with irony! But we hope it's a huge success. We wouldn't want Barry Diller and HuffPo's Ken Lerer to lose any of their magical internet credibility. Also we hope the 23/6 kids don't hate working for 23/6 as much as we hear pretty much everyone currently can't stand working at HuffPo.
CNN Aims For Cutting-Edge, Misses By Several Dimensions
Maggie · 10/29/07 02:40PMCNN is opening up a new bureau! And a j-school! Larry King will teach! Weekly news meetings will be run by CNN staffers! Oh, except, all of these things will be happening in alleged virtual world Second Life. Beginning next week, says MediaWeek, CNN will open up shop in the 3-D virtual world, allowing its residents to submit i-Reports on "news" happening in Second Life, learn tricks of the trade from leading CNN personalities, and get their news from virtual newsstands throughout the network. "I love that we don't have to take things from the real world and force them in," Susan Grant, executive VP of CNN News Services, told MediaWeek. We love the total insanity of that rationale.
Must be Saturday: 'Times' Reports About Chumley's Wall Collapse, Own Blog Posts
Jon · 04/07/07 11:46AMTurns out rumors of West Village speakeasy Chumley's demise were rather premature. According to today's Times the bar's owners claim it'll be back up and running in a month or two. But what's auspicious for the ghosts of literary Chum-scrubbers Hemingway, Eliot, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck posed a problem for Times scribbler James Barron: How to pad what amounts to a report on a business putting up a "be back in 5" sign? It's the nineties, silly—turn to AOL: