EXCLUSIVE: Inside ‘The Onion’ pre-Oscar editorial meeting (Photo: Rock Center with Brain Williams) Two weeks before the 85th Academy Awards, Rock Center’s Harry Smith sat in during an “Onion” editorial meeting where they brainstormed content for Oscar night. The staff discussed several possible headlines and mentioned nine-year-old “Beasts of the Southern Wild” actress Quvenzhané Wallis. During the awards, Wallis was the butte of a controversial joke tweeted by “The Onion.” Read the complete story and watch Harry Smith’s full report tonight, March 1 at 10PM/9C on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside ‘The Onion’ pre-Oscar editorial meeting

(Photo: Rock Center with Brain Williams)

Two weeks before the 85th Academy Awards, Rock Center’s Harry Smith sat in during an “Onion” editorial meeting where they brainstormed content for Oscar night. The staff discussed several possible headlines and mentioned nine-year-old “Beasts of the Southern Wild” actress Quvenzhané Wallis. During the awards, Wallis was the butte of a controversial joke tweeted by “The Onion.”

Read the complete story and watch Harry Smith’s full report tonight, March 1 at 10PM/9C on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.

Source: nbcnews.to

The Onion apologizes for offensive Quvenzhané Wallis tweet (Photo: Frederic J. Brown / AFP - Getty Images) Not all humor is for everyone (just read reviews of Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar night hosting job), but some jokes cause everyone to agree that a line has been crossed. Such was the case Sunday night when, for nearly an hour, a tweet by the Onion applied the c-word to 9-year-old “Beasts of the Southern Wild” star Quvenzhané Wallis. On Monday, The Onion CEO Steve Hannah apologized and promised disciplinary action for “those individuals responsible.” Read the complete story.
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The Onion apologizes for offensive Quvenzhané Wallis tweet

(Photo: Frederic J. Brown / AFP - Getty Images)

Not all humor is for everyone (just read reviews of Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar night hosting job), but some jokes cause everyone to agree that a line has been crossed. Such was the case Sunday night when, for nearly an hour, a tweet by the Onion applied the c-word to 9-year-old “Beasts of the Southern Wild” star Quvenzhané Wallis. On Monday, The Onion CEO Steve Hannah apologized and promised disciplinary action for “those individuals responsible.”

Read the complete story.

Source: digitallife.today.com

Onion’s Obama-Ahmadinejad ‘poll’ cited as fact in Iran (Photo: TheOnion.com) CHICAGO — A joke by the satirical website The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation. An Iranian news agency picked up — as fact — a story from the paper about a supposed Gallup survey showing an overwhelming majority of rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. But it was made up, like everything in the just-for-laughs newspaper, which is headquartered in Chicago. Read the complete story.
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Onion’s Obama-Ahmadinejad ‘poll’ cited as fact in Iran

(Photo: TheOnion.com)

CHICAGO — A joke by the satirical website The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation.

An Iranian news agency picked up — as fact — a story from the paper about a supposed Gallup survey showing an overwhelming majority of rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. But it was made up, like everything in the just-for-laughs newspaper, which is headquartered in Chicago.

Read the complete story.

Source: MSNBC

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