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short segments are coming online every day, with titles like "The government should stop dumping money into a hole" and "The tragic death of the boy can happen to any family with his 20-Foot Pet Python .." During three years, was The Onion fraudulent Fox News, CNN and MSNBC with its network of Onion news (theonion.com), perhaps the best parody of cable news anywhere.

Now, the Onion News Network publishes the equivalent of a feature film, "The Future: News of the year 2137." In the production of almost a year, this 12-minute video is supposed to be a newsletter to recover from a disastrous America, where states are the names of companies and citizens are outraged that Doomsday Device does not operate as planned. "We borrowed from Fox News 2137", Will Graham, the executive producer of the Red Onion, said with a chuckle.

"We've become so dense that it should be noted on several occasions – and may have diminished," said Mark Liberman, vice president of business development of the onion. Online video will be available at $ 2 in the Apple iTunes Store on Tuesday, the first time that the onion has requested that their videos. The future, he says, is "a different direction for our jokes .."

Even some leading cable news could admit that their programs are easy to laugh, his propensity to each overhyped local primary elections and the will to leave everything to a car chase (or, less frequently, a bear hunt). Use the onion as "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. The Onion invents its own clip. But Jon Stewart in this show, Walter Cronkite anchors false, use the actual TV clip as the development of his jokes.

Futures: News, for example, includes a field in 2137 accusing the media of mutant beetle attacks alarmist, not veiled criticism of the coverage of cable crimes and missing persons. The two formats are the first part, but sometimes twice, a powerful form of media criticism. This sounds like a television news director, spicy Lewis (Darbi Worley), the customer "information" or, in the future "News", he said, "This is what the public wants to see .."

"Residents were surprised to see this very common thing that happens," intoned the anchor to present "an interesting witness," that "describes the event in terms of breath .." In a video Cipolla was particularly popular in TV newsrooms this spring, an anchor and a journalist deconstructs a story about the local news a bear running loose in suburbia.

(News of reality "that makes you mourn," said Sena. Two former hosts of cable news, CNN, Bobbie Battista and Suzanne Sena Fox News, which are independent of onion anchors. Graham said one of the graphs of the network onion was hired away from Fox News. "false news that makes you laugh so much mourn.") and the traffic in both directions: Mr.

With a morning show, sports and talk programming for C-Span a similar channel, perhaps the only thing missing Onion News Network is a clone of Glenn Beck or Chris Matthews. But she recently added a section led by an expert armed with a rifle semi-illiterate.

The creators of the Onion News Network is essential that the video for the Web and TV episodes appear as network administrator, Judy Adler, said, "superauthentic." (That's why they are sometimes mistaken for real news, the Make-A-Wish, even includes a warning on its website, wish.org two years in a video, entitled "Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation with the intention of unlimited wants. ").

Franken, who worked for CNN from 1986-2007 and is now a reporter for Hearst, said in a video capture email with precision "the anchor asked UNperky very animated, graphical analysis underpowering .. Most of Veterans Appeal of authenticity on television, they say they are avid viewers of videos for The Onion. Mr.

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