The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 (Vol.1)
by Scott Dikkers, The Onion, Robert Siegel, Mike Loew
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Author: Mike Loew, Robert Siegel, Scott Dikkers, The OnionEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-04
ISBN: 0609804634
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: Equal opportunity satire
Summary: 5 Stars
My, my...perhaps I should have pursued my journalism career -- I would love to write for the Onion -- but only the Onion -- because their sarcastic wit is just what the nation needs. This is a very satirical look at news, newspapers, and publishers. The stories cover with, irreverent insensitivity, some subjects sure to anger some, while at the same time, make others laugh until they cry.
The story about Mother Teresa going to hell due to a "clerical error", or the one where Jon Benet Ramsey, tells people not to cry about her brutal death, because she is happy with the angels now, are just a couple examples of what I am talking about.
Just about no political/social group escapes the watchful eye of the Onion. The homosexual humor is extremely outrageous. I especially enjoyed how they "covered" a story regarding a homosexual man who saved a family from a fire. Even though the story should have been focusing on the brave rescue, the reporter kept mentioning the man's homosexuality every chance he got, showing a bit extremely, how news gets sensationalized.
If you loved Our Dumb Century as much as I did and can handle some very extreme, and at times, sexually explicit humor and can take a joke, you will love this latest compilation from the Onion. It is highly hysterical reading.
Summary of The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 (Vol.1)
The Onion is the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times #1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onion returns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including:--Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Names More Pronounceable
--Jesus Christ Returns to NBA
--Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
--I Can't Stand My Filthy Hippy Owner by Thunder the Ferret
From the editors of the most hilarious periodical around comes The Onion's Finest News Reporting, a collection of stories and commentaries with a sublime satirical bite. Devotees of the Madison, Wisconsin, weekly will erupt with laughter at each turn of the page, while newcomers will wonder how they have done without such headlines as "Civil War Enthusiasts Burn Atlanta to Ground," "Saddam Hussein Steps Down Following Sex Scandal," "Lyndon Johnson Jr. Sworn in as George Editor," "Nation's Educators Alarmed by Poorly Written Teen Suicide Notes," and "Massive Oil Spill Results in Improved Wildlife Viscosity." The brilliant parodies following the headlines are consistently smart, irreverent, and hysterical. Some selections are masterworks of absurdity, such as op-ed pieces written from the perspectives of pylons, chemical plants, or appliances. The book also contains some choice picks from the magazine's "What Do You Think?" column, in which ordinary citizens sound off on timely topics such as the teaching of evolution in schools ("I am against evolution being taught in schools. I am also against widespread literacy and the refrigeration of food.") and the cloning of animals ("I can't believe it--imagine a whole field of sheep that all look alike!"). As with all effective satire, this volume seeks to hit society's raw nerves: homophobia, racism, sexism, even Canada--"Perky 'Canada' Has Own Government, Laws" reads one headline. But buyer beware: if Dave Barry is about your speed, you may find some of these stories (and the language) to be tasteless, if not offensive. Others will love this book for those very reasons. --Shawn Carkonen
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