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# The Onion

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# A Very Fatal Murder
Here's why A Very Fatal Murder should be your next podcast
The Onion’s first adventure into podcasting is making fun of every true crime podcast you’ve ever listened to.
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Mar 9th 2018, 8:00 AM
# repeal the eighth
The Onion absolutely skewered Ireland's strict abortion laws in a piece yesterday
We’re making The Onion for all the wrong reasons.
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Jul 1st 2017, 4:41 PM
# seriously though
Satirical site The Onion is now worth more than most of the real news outlets it mocks
We kid you not.
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Jan 20th 2016, 12:44 PM
# you couldn't make it up
Ex-Fifa VP uses fake 'The Onion' article to defend himself against corruption claims
Does someone want to tell him?
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Jun 1st 2015, 10:46 AM
# only in ireland
Story in today's Irish Times is worthy of The Onion
You couldn’t make it up.
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Feb 2nd 2015, 10:36 AM
# boobs
Trinity College pops up in a story about boobs on TheOnion.com
Warning: mentions ‘the girls’, ‘motorboating” and a ‘sweet ass’.
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Jul 31st 2013, 10:54 AM
# Sorry
The Onion apologises for 'offensive' tweet about young actress
The newspaper described nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis with an expletive.
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Feb 25th 2013, 6:09 PM
# Satire
Chinese paper deletes story after falling for 'The Onion' spoof
…even though Kim Jong-Un WAS named as the satirical paper’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012.
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Nov 28th 2012, 9:03 AM
# Oops
Iran's news agency: Sorry we mistook a story from The Onion for real news
Iran’s state news agency ran a story about an opinion poll which found Mahmoud Ahmadinjad was more popular than Barack Obama. Only problem? It was from The Onion.
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Sep 30th 2012, 1:23 PM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Thursday
In tonight’s Fix: the latest from the Race for the Áras; meet the new frontman of INXS; the latest from Libya and why it’s been a good day for Angela Merkel.
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Sep 29th 2011, 8:10 PM
# The Onion
Has The Onion gone too far with #CongressHostage story?
A ‘news story’, tweets and now a video falsely claim there is a hostage situation involving young children at the United States Congress building in Washington. It has not gone down well in some quarters.
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Sep 29th 2011, 7:20 PM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Tuesday
Riots in Greece, RTÉ responds to the Healy-Rae phone call controversy, amazing pics of a WWII plane dug out of a bog in Donegal….and a baby koala.
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Jun 28th 2011, 8:06 PM
# Justice
Celebrities and a cat campaign for a Pulitzer for The Onion
Watch Tom Hanks, Ricky Gervais, Bo the Dog and Gustav the Cat throw their weight behind satirical news site The Onion’s bid for one of journalism’s top prizes.
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Jun 28th 2011, 3:51 PM
# Media
The Onion's SportsDome isn't parodying SportsCenter, it's competing with it
Expect to see the satirical sports show on this side of the Atlantic soon.
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Jan 11th 2011, 12:10 PM