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The Onion 'Infowars' parody debuts with fake video of Alex Jones dying

Satirical outlet The Onion has debuted its parody of conspiracy platform InfoWars, including a fake video of its founder Alex Jones dying, amid its ongoing legal battle to try to take over the media ...
Washington Post

The Onion is pivoting to video — no joke — with a former MSNBC anchor

Comedy news outlet the Onion — reinvigorated by new ownership over this year — is bringing back its once-popular video parodies of cable news. But this time, there’s someone with real news anchor ...
Rolling Stone

‘The Onion’ CEO on That Brutal ‘New York Times’ Op-Ed: ‘Expect Us in Weird Places’

And, just by wild coincidence, the stunt came right as the administration barreled ahead with the bombing of Iran, a destabilizing and politically unpopular action that for many Americans recalled the ...
CBS News

Judge rejects bankruptcy sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion

A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected the sale of the conspiracy platform Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet after Alex Jones claimed that a recent bankruptcy auction was fraught with ...
NPR

'Funny Because It's True' tells the history of satirical paper 'The Onion'

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Christine Wenc, author of the new book Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern News Satire. Here's some headlines for you. "Kitten Thinks Of Nothing But ...