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You might think this is a headline from the Onion, but it's from NPR. It's a headline
about the Onion,
which is 25 years old today! The satirical newspaper started out small,
and now has the newspaper, a popular website, and the Onion News
Network video series.
Two college students founded the
fake news organization, which began as a newspaper in Madison, Wis. "It
really started as something very local that was intended mainly to ...
sell pizza coupons," Editor-in-Chief Will Tracy tells Morning Edition
host Renee Montagne..
It still has that Midwestern touch, he says.
"We
still have a lot of Midwesterners writing for us, and I do think that
there is a distinctly Midwestern aesthetic and voice to the paper,"
Tracy says. "It's sort of an unflashy, flat, unpretentious sort of voice
that we have."
Part of that regional bent comes through in The
Onion's daily-life humor and its stories about "Area Man" (who Tracy
says seems to be a Midwesterner).
Read more about growing the Onion at
NPR.
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