Christine Wenc

So I know the comedy community also held them in extremely high regard after that issue came out.

So I know the comedy community also held them in extremely high regard after that issue came out.

Oh, there's so, so many. There's been thousands and thousands of headlines. I have a penchant for the science and the kind of silly ones. One I always liked is archaeologists. Archaeological dig uncovers ancient race of skeleton people, which you have to sort of think about it for a minute. There's a lot of good archaeology ones.

Oh, there's so, so many. There's been thousands and thousands of headlines. I have a penchant for the science and the kind of silly ones. One I always liked is archaeologists. Archaeological dig uncovers ancient race of skeleton people, which you have to sort of think about it for a minute. There's a lot of good archaeology ones.

But there are many, many funny and interesting and actually kind of sometimes sort of complicated and sad stories about people finding onion articles to be true, you know, thinking that it was real, which often happens when stories are kind of taken out of their context and seen in a different way. In the new context, sometimes it's hard to tell whether things are real or not.

But there are many, many funny and interesting and actually kind of sometimes sort of complicated and sad stories about people finding onion articles to be true, you know, thinking that it was real, which often happens when stories are kind of taken out of their context and seen in a different way. In the new context, sometimes it's hard to tell whether things are real or not.

And so I think many, many people have been fooled by The Onion for sure.

And so I think many, many people have been fooled by The Onion for sure.

I was there early on when the staff was a bunch of 18 to 20-year-old undergraduate students, you know, working out of a dumpy student apartment on campus. And, you know, a lot of the paper was basically made up at, you know, 2 o'clock in the morning before it had to go to the printer a few hours later. But, you know, there was a lot of...

I was there early on when the staff was a bunch of 18 to 20-year-old undergraduate students, you know, working out of a dumpy student apartment on campus. And, you know, a lot of the paper was basically made up at, you know, 2 o'clock in the morning before it had to go to the printer a few hours later. But, you know, there was a lot of...

Being in a creative environment with a bunch of young people is very fun. There's all kinds of crazy, silly things happening all the time. That was gone by about the early 90s. But the 1990s staff, that was the group that really took The Onion to the next level, I think. They're the ones that made The Onion into a parody of USA Today, as people thought about it at the time. The newspaper, that is.

Being in a creative environment with a bunch of young people is very fun. There's all kinds of crazy, silly things happening all the time. That was gone by about the early 90s. But the 1990s staff, that was the group that really took The Onion to the next level, I think. They're the ones that made The Onion into a parody of USA Today, as people thought about it at the time. The newspaper, that is.

A number of them became committed to satirizing from a Probably a progressive point of view, I would say. That became really important. That's when they also started really adhering to AP style. And they were the people that really created the Onion's sort of mature voice, if you could call it mature, in that period of time. So that was an amazing group of people.

A number of them became committed to satirizing from a Probably a progressive point of view, I would say. That became really important. That's when they also started really adhering to AP style. And they were the people that really created the Onion's sort of mature voice, if you could call it mature, in that period of time. So that was an amazing group of people.

And a lot of those people are pictured on the front of the book, actually.

And a lot of those people are pictured on the front of the book, actually.

Yeah, that was very, I thought I definitely laughed when I saw that I was, that I'd been, oh, wow, it's USA Today. Do they know about the whole thing?

Yeah, that was very, I thought I definitely laughed when I saw that I was, that I'd been, oh, wow, it's USA Today. Do they know about the whole thing?

Yeah, no, it's been so interesting to see how, you know, because part of what I did with the book is tell the story of media and the news since the 80s, as well as the history of The Onion, because The Onion has been satirizing and making fun of flaws and, and, I would say, in mainstream media, you know, since that time in a lot of different ways.

Yeah, no, it's been so interesting to see how, you know, because part of what I did with the book is tell the story of media and the news since the 80s, as well as the history of The Onion, because The Onion has been satirizing and making fun of flaws and, and, I would say, in mainstream media, you know, since that time in a lot of different ways.