The 'Onion' Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives Volume 15 : Relations Break Down Between U.S. and Them

The Onion Complete News Archives

by The Onion

The Onion team is back with more award-winning journalism, deadpan headlines, opinion pieces, news in brief...in fact every last damn word published by America's Finest News Source[trademark] in the past year. Fresh from the front lines of world journalism came 'New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq' and 'U.N. Orders Wonka To Submit To Chocolate Factory Inspections'. This is the latest edition in their annual roundups of world news; all the material from the previous 12 months editions is collected here, and not available online. The Onion Ad Nauseam Volume 15 brings you pure Onion ('Al Qaeda Allegedly Engaging In Telemarketing') wrapping it's cultural commentary and loony anecdotes in the language of a suburban daily. Still the original and best way to take a humorous look at world events ('Bush Seeks U.N. Support For "US Does Whatever It Wants" Plan'), this will appeal to anyone with a sense of humour...except may be if you're the President of the United States.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Comedy, Satire, Contemporary

Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

The satirical newspaper The Onion was founded in 1988 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Originally a weekly humor print publication targeting a local student population, The Onion is today a booming news organization known as America’s Finest News Source.

The launch of TheOnion.com in 1996 expanded its signature brand of satire to a national and international audience. Online expansion opened doors to growth in a multitude of areas. The company has become an omnipotent news empire, reaching millions of fans through print, broadcast, radio, mobile apps, books, and, in January 2011, two new television shows on the Independent Film Channel and Comedy Central. The website continues to be the nucleus of all The Onion does, described by TIME magazine as “the funniest site on the Internet.”

TheOnion.com now averages 40 million page views and roughly 7.5 million unique visitors per month. The Onion’s digital strategy has resulted in an enormous and dedicated fan base. The newspaper’s content is delivered constantly, Tweeted at optimum times and posted on Facebook during high-traffic periods. Subsequently, users can easily embed, share, or post articles and videos to their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts. As a result, the Onion’s fans take an active role in the viral nature of the content. Within minutes of posting an article or video, the content materializes across a number of platforms.

Reviews

[Benjamin Plume · Rating 4 out of 5]

The onion is classic, and has humor from the low-brow to the way above most folks' heads.

[Jimyanni · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a collection of spoof, "Harvard Lampoon" style, irreverent "newspaper articles", poking fun at some standards of the newspaper trade. What is particularly amazing about this is that not only do they fill an entire book with spot-on parodies of headlines, but in most cases, they actually write the article that goes with the headlines, and remain just as spot-on in their parodies. (In a few cases, all we see is headlines with fake "see story on page xx" tags.) The one way in which their parodies are NOT perfect is that they are actually BETTER written and edited than real newspaper stories; I found NO typos in the entire book. So not only are they hilariously funny, they're also COMPETENT.

[Becky Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yay!!!

[Aaron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anything done by The Onion is the funniest thing ever.

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Heh heh heh.

[Chad Lamb · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Onion is always good for a few laughs. My buddy Lucas and I enjoyed reading these together.