The Onion: Funny site is no joke

[Township75]

(Business 2.0) -- The claim sounds almost outlandish enough to be a headline on the Onion: "Satire Web site Shows Profit." But it's true, and the site it describes is none other than TheOnion.com, the scathingly funny lampoon of current events and news coverage thereof.

For seven years TheOnion.com has been calling out the absurdities of our world -- "Executive Quits Fast Track to Spend More Time With Possessions" -- and has built a fanatical readership of 1.3 million a month. Beneath the mordant wit, the Onion has also built a solid business that survived the dotcom crash.

When the online advertising collapse drove other ad-supported content sites into oblivion (remember Word.com or NBCi?) or forced them to experiment with subscriptions and premium pricing (à la Salon and TheStreet.com), the Onion managed to stick to its original business model and weather the tough times.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/08/28/bus2.feat.onion.site/index.html

[WillParkinson]

1. I'm probably a minority (again) but...

I hate the Onion. It's a waste of paper as far as I am concerned.

[seeker4ever]

2. Hmmm, let me see if it makes me cry.

[seeker4ever]

3. Looks like they're hurtin' for material.

[Township75]

4. The Onion, CNN, or both? *

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