Weeping with laughter.(satirical newspaper The Onion)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, May, 1999
NEW YORK
``CLINTON takes leave of office to stand in line for Star Wars: Episode 1''; ``NYPD apologises for accidental shooting-clubbing-stabbing- firebombing death''.
These are headlines from the Onion, a wildly popular satirical weekly that looks like USA Today and reads like a newspaper written up from wire copy by the editors of Mad.
The Onion, which began 11 years ago as a student weekly at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has suddenly become a national hit. Its print readership is 360,000 and its web edition gets 2m visits a month. ``Our Dumb Century'', a book of absurd newspaper front pages from 1900 to now reached the top of the paperback bestseller list of the New York Times earlier this month. Sample: for 1912, ``World's...
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