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scrog_420 · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 47 Location: State of Jefferson

Wow, has anyone in Dubai seen this?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/dubai_debt_crisis_halts_building?utm_source=slate_rss_1

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Err... this is the Onion... go to their home page and check out the headlines. Do think this is a real news site... or perhaps a satire site? (actually one can hang out there for hours being entertained.) Laughing

VS

(and 16 people had looked at this thread and either didn't get it or just didn't tell you...)

PC Parrot · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:52 am Post subject:

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I like the other headline: Gay Teen Worried he Might be Christian

hahaha

jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

Finally, a reliable/credible/ alternative to FOX.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Try MSNBC...NY Times...Washington Post... and many more.. the evil "liberal-biased" media

jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

Do Stewart and Colbert count?

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

You betcha... even Bryan Williams thinks so.

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Eisenhorn · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 146 Location: HCT Land. UAE

This is my all time favorite from the Onion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_OIXfkXEj0

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

It is like talking to a goat... Laughing

VS

jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

I think the Onion is where I will search for all my news from now on. Entertaining yet informative..... Very Happy

But the question remains...what is its ratings market share?

johnslat · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject:

Dear jdl,

RMS? Not sure, but maybe this'll help:

"The Onion has been around since 1988; founded by Tim Keck and Christopher, then two juniors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and originally supported by ad revenue from local restaurants and small businesses. The Onion is now distributed free in 11 cities across America (with a print circulation of nearly 700,000), has published 9 collected volumes, and produced its own feature film, The Onion Movie. Since starting the online edition in 1996, they�ve expanded to include the A/V Club, which regularly features film/music reviews and interviews, and the Onion News Network, daily online video parodies, for which the site has invested more than $1 million and hired 15 new staffers.

According to the 2008 MediaKit, online readership runs at an average of more than 5 million unique monthly visitors (the AV Club recently passed 1 million). According to a 2003 CNN article, The Onion, which started with only an $8000 loan from Keck�s mother, was by 1994 "generating $1 million a year in ad revenue and a few hundred thousand dollars in profit." Annual revenues really took off after The Onion started up the website. One article in particular, "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients," was a viral Internet hit, and was read in its entirety on NPR�s hit radio show "Car Talk." The Onion now averages more than $10 million in annual profit. Not bad for just making it all up."

(Huh? Isn't that what the "legitimate" news sources do, too?)

Regards,
John

jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

You mean it isn't true? They make it up? Damn, just like all the other news networks! "Say it ain't so, John"

Thanks John, I am now an Onion fan.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Here's a little fact that I hadn't picked up while basically ignoring the opening of the world's tallest building in Dubai:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6976011.ece

So... it is Burj Khalifa... not Burj Dubai...

...oh the pain...

VS

randalllpatterson · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 10

i love the onion:
my fave was a usatoday-style top ten list of things single people do on valentine's day. things like: walk slowly into the ocean.