"The Onion Brings Fake News to Web Video"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - Having already blossomed as a newspaper, Web site and book publisher, The Onion - perhaps the most dominant provider of fake news anywhere - is bringing its brand of humor to the hot medium of the moment: Online video.

The dispatches on the Onion News Network, which goes live Tuesday, aren't likely to be causing much missed sleep over at CNN and Fox News Channel, unless those outlets start covering fake news stories like Civil War re-enactors being dispatched to Iraq.

But on the Web, The Onion will be going up against several others who have already established themselves in comedy video, including Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

Much of that awareness, however, came from unauthorized clips being viewed on Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube, something that Comedy Central's parent company Viacom Inc. (VIAB) is suing YouTube over for $1 billion.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070327/D8O484U00.html

[Sabriel]

1. Doesn't that make Fox redundant?

I mean, you know....

It'll be hard to tell which is serious journalism and which is BS.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. So true

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. link to the Onion

http://www.theonion.com/content/

check out today's video... Immigration: The Human Cost :rofl:

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Loved the one of bush calling up Civil War..............

Reenactors for Iraq duty.
That was great.