Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source (Onion Presents)
by Brian Williams, The Onion
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Author: Brian Williams, The OnionEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-03
ISBN: 1439156921
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: Stop the Presses!
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps we never grow up. What we laughed at in our formative years, Mad Magazine for example, draws us to what we laugh at as adults, The Onion. I don't know if that realization is funny or sad, but here is a big coffee table book of satire to read while pondering the question.
As a Wisconsinite I particularly like the early years (the "O" started out here): "Gov Proclaims November Masturbation Month" and "UW Cuts Funding Of Coed Naked Sports" (Wasn't "Coed Naked Sports" a t-shirt? What kind of a publication plagiarizes a t-shirt?). I can see taking this book out from the library, but why would someone buy it, I hear you asking. Because, the more you look the more you find. We read this in fine print: "Beatles reunion tour ends after chair mishap," for example, and realize we really live a kind of non-sequitor existence that goes beyond cheap SNL sarcasm. A world the "serious" media ever admits. Truth! Can we take it? "War, Come On, Let's Have One," "Clever bumper Stickers Resolve Abortion Issue," "Pope Forgives Molested Children" and "Nursery Home Has '96 Die-Off."
Maybe Speed Stick isn't available in Neapolitan yet and Christ has not returned to the NBA "...chipping in 13 points, 4 assists and wowing fans with his trademark `Ascension Dunk.'" But the reality is main-stream daily newspapers are dropping like horse turds and The Onion is getting the red-carpet treatment. Perhaps we should just accept that the..."Last Literate Person On Earth Is Dead At 98." But who cares. Or in the wisdom of our childhood, "What Me Worry?" Hey, we don't have to hide from our parents anymore. Meanwhile my favorites are "Pier1 Issues Formal Apology For Rattan Death March" and "Disembodied Voice In Elevator Wants To Know Way to San Jose." They make at least as much sense as anything else does today.
- John Lehman, [...].
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Summary of Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source (Onion Presents)
From The Birth Of A Nation To The Death Of Journalism
Since its founding by a bloodthirsty tyrant in 1756, The Onion has not merely changed the way we think about the news -- it has changed whether we think about the news at all. As the first decade of this new millennium draws to a close, Our Front Pages shows us the first thing that presidents, kings, prime ministers, and popes saw when they opened their eyes each morning for the last 21 years. Now you, the common reader and citizen, can see what they saw and be as informed as they were with this important retrospective of the past two decades. You, too, will realize what generations before have realized and generations yet unborn will some day realize in turn: The Onion is not merely the chronicle of America. The Onion is America.
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