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Peeling The Onion: How 'America's Finest News Source' Finds Its News
"In an inversion of the traditional editorial process, The Onion chooses its headlines and then invents stories to fit them. For a headline to have made the first cut, at least two of the six writers in attendance had to okay it, generally an occasion of little fanfare in which a couple of people threw up their hands and murmured with a defeated sigh, 'Sure, why the hell not?'" Washington Post 11/16/08
"In an inversion of the traditional editorial process, The Onion chooses its headlines and then invents stories to fit them. For a headline to have made the first cut, at least two of the six writers in attendance had to okay it, generally an occasion of little fanfare in which a couple of people threw up their hands and murmured with a defeated sigh, 'Sure, why the hell not?'" Washington Post 11/16/08
Posted November 20, 2008 09:25 PM
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