The satire newspaper, The Onion, started in Madison, Wisconsin in 1988. My friend and I would go down to the Madison campus to play at the arcade as high schoolers around the same time. Each time I would make sure to grab an Onion from the kiosk.
It was clearly liberal. It poked a lot of fun at Reagan. It had poor taste jokes (like putting Christopher Reeves at the top of the Washington Monument).
It taught me a lot about college life before I got to college. I was nerdy enough to get a subscription to The Onion newspaper (from my mom) when I went off to a different college.
Anyway... thinking about it was a blast from the past.
I think the recent years have been tough for The Onion. How do you satire a living joke?
It was recently announced in the news that Joe Biden will start receiving the President Trump’s Daily briefings. The Onion found a copy and posted it:
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@SW-User maybe it was free and I’m misremembering. That was many lost brain cells ago 😂
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@summersong If it had Chicago advertising... I would assume it was free. If it had Madison’s advertising... you probably paid for it.
I remember the AV section and I would debate if I should buy the mentioned artist. Music was such an investment back then. You would have to buy the whole CD just to see if you liked the artist.
