God bless the goddamn Onion

in its entire history there are like 7 onion articles total that are strong reads from headline to byline... i really liked it when they switched to the headline/one paragraph format, less chance to fuck it up

man that is some harsh judgement...

Bylines are traditionally placed between the headline and the text of the article

Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life

hahaha!

COMMENTARY • Opinion • ISSUE 49•12 • Mar 20, 2013
By David Ferguson

ok you lost me at ISSUE 49•12

haha you know what i meant, and irealizd that the onion places its authors right below the headline as i wrote that but i didnt give a fuccccckkkk

the 20/30-somethings experience

i wonder if this thing "connecting on facebook" has anything to do with the whole tail-end-of-gen-x-thru-gen-y helicopter parenting developing into entitlement issues for a bunch of kids who were told they were gonna live their dreams but instead now we have a fiscal crisis and an engineer shortage and a bunch of 20/30-somethings who didn't live their dreams but ultimately live cushy enough lives inherited from their middle-to upper-middle-to-upper-class upbringings to be on the internet all day and dominate the discourse with things like forwarding onion articles and upvoting "harlem shake" videos.

― îron swanson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:55 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I think this is very much about being a generation raised by dreamy boomers but without the boomer economy/job market to back up those dreams. I just heard some reasonably established middle-aged journalist on NPR saying "When I started my career, all the papers had some kind of paid entry level position that you could get with no experience and it paid the bills and you could feed yourself and build a portfolio" and I was like YEAH RIGHT BULLSHIT THAT NEVER HAPPENED...really?

They would have 'one' position like that.

(I remember C-Man ranting on about being turned down as a school leaver for such a placing, in favour of some 'pretty girl' apparently, and the daft thing was, I'd applied for one as well and also got turned down and had completely forgotten about..)

IDK though, I feel like you hear a lot more older journalists talk about working their way up through a single paper, and starting in a paid job (if not a paid writing job, maybe copy editing). This "internship" concept didn't exist, let alone doing a series of four or five unpaid internships. And there were more papers, with more money, and probably less competition too because fewer people graduated college. Of course you're still getting the selection bias of people who made it when you listen to those interviews, but I definitely think we face a combination of a larger generation of people who feel that they should have "interesting" work combined with a lower availability of that kind of work (unless you're in computers).

Well, I hope those paths still exist, as Amber is keen on doing Jnlsm...

Oh man. Tell her to go into Telemarketing or some other more lucrative career.

well no, the decidedly do not still exist. that's my whole point.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-rachel-goldstein-really-hitting-it-off-on-gr,31753

This may be obvious, but surely part of the appeal of the ''do what you love'' bit is that it's expressly sending up a popular theme OF the facebook macro industry, and the specific uncritical glibness that imagines that anybody doing something they don't love must just not be trying hard enough or loving life enough, or whatever?

yesss

http://www.theonion.com/articles/youtube-reaches-1-trillion-racist-comments,31766/

^ does kinda make me wonder how many terabytes of server space are occupied by the word "faggot"

http://i.imgur.com/tr5Zdu2.png

hah

http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-time-for-watereddown-and-effectively-meaningle,31751/

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/21/21461/original/700.hq.jpg?8475

aww the birthright article is beautiful

On the old school paid journalism note, Bryson does a nice turn in his UK travels book about his time at one of the London papers just before Murdoch came in and tipped it all upside down and he speaks of 3 hour lunches and people starting at 11 and bailing at 5, and it sounded like a magical unionised fairyland to me.

I worked in Fleet Street on 'location' (not in the journo industry, t'was insurance), and yes I 'vaguely' remember the Friday afternoons...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ad-for-drummer-personally-attacks-old-drummer,31911/

hahah, was just about to post that

Ned, is it me or do you seem to find a way to make references to Peruvian things some how? Have you ever been?

It's usually jaymc who does the perusing.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-rachel-goldstein-really-hitting-it-off-on-gr,31753

― Mordy, Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:10 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think i get this one

The choice of bandname is amusing coincidence. I have not been, but I have reasons to appreciate the country.

sd: it's a birthright trip thang

Ned, so do I.

Lima itself has turned into a nice city, but the real treat is traveling through the provinces, depending on what you enjoy.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-rachel-goldstein-really-hitting-it-off-on-gr,31753

― Mordy, Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:10 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think i get this one

― some dude, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:43 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc its common for jewish american youth to take an extended trip to israel at some point, usually with a group of other youth, which can result in a summer-camp-like environment, occasionally yielding romance/crushes

obama's first trip to israel, etc

http://www.theonion.com/articles/syrians-lives-are-worthless-obama-tells-daughters,31934

http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-carolina-defends-right-to-fly-hardees-flag-f,31881/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/roger-ebert-hails-human-existence-as-a-triumph,31945/

much nicer than their response to siskel's passing

ah ok thnks for explaining the israel thing -- i mean i was aware of that aspect but didn't realize it was the crux of the comedy, was like is this just a lol what if obama was a pedo thing?

huh, your post was how i heard ebert died.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/coworker-with-fluorescent-bike-vest-treats-office,31980/

spot on. we had someone here who had blindingly bright red strobing lights on his backpack and he'd turn them on before leaving office

http://www.theonion.com/articles/taco-bell-launches-new-morning-after-burrito,918/

this infographic is killing me:
http://media.theonion.com/images/articles/article/918/onion_news2180_jpg_250x1000_q85.jpg

Taco Bell officials are excited about the offering. "In the past, before Roe v. Wade, young women literally had to 'make a run for the border' to terminate an unwanted pregnancy," Taco Bell public relations director Grant Lesko said. "But now, women can make that same run for the border at over 7,300 convenient locations right in their own hometowns."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/leading-social-media-site-harvardconnection-now-va,32011/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

lol

liked thi sone too http://www.theonion.com/articles/fasttalking-computer-hacker-just-has-to-break-thro,32000/

me irl

Haha oh holy shit they have been killing it on the music front lately

http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-band-expects-things-to-take-off-following-gl,32027/

dying

ow that one hurts

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-is-a-tragedydoes-it-really-matter-exactly-how,32076/

would be good if it didn't make the same point ten times, which I know it fits the guy being satirized, buy yknow brevity is the soul of wit well next to the soul of wit actually. Works best w headlines; "Marilyn Manson Now Going Door To Door Shocking People" purrfecto

yeah but the whole Desert Ashes item indeed rools, not just the headline.

Study: Majority Of Americans Not Informed Enough To Stereotype Chechens

Next level IMO:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-no-news-breaking,32113/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-still-nothing,32114/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-has-the-word-breaking-lost-all-its-meanin,32115/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-can-anyone-ever-truly-know-anything-what,32116/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-we-might-be-doing-a-bad-job,32118/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-do-you-think-were-doing-a-good-job,32119/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-were-doing-a-bad-job,32120/