The Onion (Johnsonverse)

The Onion is an American digital media company subsidiary of Johnson Industries that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin. The Onion began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. In 2013, The Onion ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency.
The Onion's articles cover current events, both real and fictional, parodying the tone and format of traditional news organizations with stories, editorials, and man-on-the-street interviews using a traditional news website layout and an editorial voice modeled after that of the Associated Press. The publication's humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday events as newsworthy, surreal, or alarming, such as "Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness". In 1999, comedian Bob Odenkirk praised the publication as "the best comedy writing in the country".
The Onion also has several subdomain sites:
*ClickHole, parodying “clickbait” and “listicle” sites like BuzzFeed and Upworthy.
*The Babylon Bee, parodying evangelical-Christian-oriented media and culture.
*Reductress, parodying women’s magazines and feminist sites like Jezebel.
*The Hard Times, parodying music journalism.
*Hard Drive, parodying video game journalism.
==History==
===Publication's name===
===Madison (1988–2001)===
===New York City (2001–2012)===
===Chicago (2012–present)===
===Print edition (1988–2013)===
==Regular feature==
==Editors and writers==
==Books, video, film and audio==
==Books==
===Onion News Network===
===Video===
===The Onion Movie===
===Onion Radio News===
===Onion Public Radio===
==The Onion's influence on the real world==
===Taken seriously===
===As a political actor===
===U.S. Presidential Seal dispute===
===85th Academy Awards controversy===
===Murder of The Big Show===
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