AdamSmith Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 Wonders never cease. Brilliant though frequently off-color Onion News Network just won a Peabody, one of journalism's most prestigious awards. From the Peabody press release: Onion News Network (www.theonion.com) The Onion The satirical tabloid's online send-up of 24-hour cable-TV news was hilarious, trenchant and not infrequently hard to distinguish from the real thing. http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/press_release.php?id=156 One of my favorite ONN pieces -- "Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport." By some accounts, bits of this actually got picked up as real news: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/prag...a_international Yuck: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/anon...hropist_donates Eek: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/age_...sion_technology Quote
