True story: in the '90s, I used to buy print editions of the Onion for $1 at the Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in SF.
How times change.
The Onion quits print
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#22I get it, but this makes me sad. I've been picking it up in Austin for years.
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#24I seriously thought an Onion reporter made a joke by feeding a fake story about their print version to the Chicago Business people. I suppose when you cry wolf...
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#25Guess that means no more homeless people trying to sell me copies of The Onion on the street. Back to stolen post cards it is!
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#26While I do like that everything is moving towards paperless, I hope we keep archives of all our knowledge in some permanent form. Should a world wide power failure or some other catastrophic event occur and we were "sent back to the stone age", the amount of knowledge we would lose from losing the internet is unimaginable.
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-project-to-preserve-hum...
This was meant for a different scale of time but could be useful in an NBC's Revolution type of scenario.
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#27I live in Madison where reading the Onion in print was just sort of something one did! It was a sublime experience, and a lot of its satirical focus came from the newspaper form. The articles would be cut out and put on refrigerators or bulliten boards. The website is just not the same!
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#28Reading The Onion every Saturday morning at the diner was one of my favorite habits. Their brand of satire works so well in the context of a traditional newspaper.
Since they shut down print in New York City, I missed that a lot. I tried looking at the web site on a tablet over breakfast, but the presentation ruined it for me.
While I was an avid reader of The Onion since college in the '90s, I've moved on. The web site just isn't as funny—partially because their writing has deteriorated, partially because it's just a web site.
I guess they'll continue to show up in my Facebook feed as friends from high school forward their stories with lots of emoticons and LOLs all over them. Maybe I'll look now and then, like I'd look at something from Cracked, The Chive, The Oatmeal, or whatever. Shame to see them go out with a whimper.
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#29I did not know they had a print version.
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#30I seriously thought an Onion reporter made a joke by feeding a fake story about their print version to the Chicago Business people. I suppose when you cry wolf...
The whole article reeks of the same satire The Onion puts up every day, I thought the same thing.