The Onion:
Overrated, yes... But Still a Damn Fine Line in
Fortune Telling!
by Wallace
Runnymede
It goes
without saying, but The Onion is nothing special
compared to other top-tier satire outlets like,
say, Glossy News or the National Report.
Well yeah…
like so many things that go without saying, it
really does have to be said! The Onion is
certainly a top-tier satire outlet, however
defined, but it’s not like their work is
noticeably better than that of their peers and
equals. …
Bitter? No, of
course, I am am not biased at all :P
Hell, in all
seriousness (or rather, in all po-facedness; the
terms are hardly synonymous), it’s not like
I disdained to mention the National Report; which
latter I have never written for! So I’m
clearly at least as fair and impartial as the Fox/MSNBC
apologetical-industrial complex ;) Still, credit
where credit’s due. I found some links
discussing times where The Onion actually got it
right… I haven’t fact-checked these,
but then again, it’s satire…
http://crasstalk.com/2011/03/the-onion-predicts-the-future/
http://fusion.net/story/171057/onion-predicts-future-literally-unbelievable/
There. Can’t
say I’m not a purely disinterested writer,
aye? On the other hand, if you are a member of
the ‘disinterested is LITERALLY the same
thing as uninterested, DUDESICKLE!!!’ school
of semantic atrocities, please stop reading now!
…
Uh, you might
want to take my advice in future.
Still reading,
arncha? Hm. There’s no curing some folks.
Fortunately,
however, us folks who write satire are better
than that. Hell, even those folks at The Onion
are as well! Can’t say I’m petty, mean-spirited
or partisanly dismissive, can ya? Maybe ‘uninterested’
in the opinions of the ‘disinterest’
lobby, at a push.
Hey, I bet you
guys never have ‘problems.’ You
probably claim you have issues, do you?
There are two
kinds of people in life: issue-havers and problem-havers.
You can’t be both. Think about it.
Hell, another
semantic atrocity. Better stop here. I mean there’s
just no bottom, is there? :P
Originally
published on wallacerunnymede.wordpress.com
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