The Onion lost a lot of its best talent when they moved to Chicago, sadly, and beyond that, the daily online cycle didn't mesh well with the weekly print cycle. The newspaper was consistently hilarious, and I miss that.
@ 1, the problem was that they were sold... for $5 at the news stand at Pike Place Market. Here in Denver, they were free. (Until a couple of years ago, I think. Living in Seattle made me go online for The Onion, and I stayed online after returning to Denver. So I'm not totally sure if they were still being distributed for free or not here.)
I so much preferred the print version to the online. Something about the form really served the satire. But it's been years since I've seen a print copy anywhere.
@2: Yeah, that makes sense. I'm thinking that they probably weren't sold on campus or in the bookstore (at least not obviously or I probably would have seen it). And if the Onion isn't selling on campus to college kids, then they had a problem. I actually briefly tried to look for it, but it never occurred to me that it was sold by Bulldog. Kind of obvious when you think of it.
They were free, but I don't think they were ever published in Seattle. So if vendors were selling them, they were getting them shipped in from somewhere.
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The videos are incredible send-ups of TV news. I suppose that if there are virtually no decent print newspapers left, what's the point of sending-up those?
As for the NYT, they keep running historical perspectives that have a creepy deathbed tone. "Call my heirs, son, so I can tell them how it used to be."
I have been reading the Onion in Milwaukee since I was in my teens. In the next few years I will be parenting a teenage daughter, and I hate that they won't have the Onion to read, but especially because that is how I was introduced to you Dan, and I know the kids will find you on the internet, I will make sure to leave your blog open, but there was something amazing about stumbling upon your column while out as a young adult that really meant something. We in Milwaukee were lucky to have had The Onion in print longer than most, but it just sucks to have it gone.
I remember hard-copy of the Onion being ubiquitous all over Boulder, CO in the mid-1990s, back when Mr. Savage insisted, in print, that everyone address him as "Dear Faggot"
As for the NYT, they keep running historical perspectives that have a creepy deathbed tone. "Call my heirs, son, so I can tell them how it used to be."
Also, was I the only person that liked the Onions Sports Network show?
The Onion was never 'sold' or 'distributed' here due to the resultant direct competition with the The Stranger, its sister newspaper.
This is like a story from The Onion.