Here comes the Onion News Network
Steve Safran March 10th, 2007
The Onion is getting into the video fake news business with 15 new employees and a video production unit. The online clips will be embeddable on blogs. Here’s the trailer for the Onion News Network, which starts up next month.
The more satirical the fake news promos get, the more they look like real news promos.


8 Comments Add your own
1. Kerry | March 10th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Excellent… I subscribe to their podcast, and it’s always hillarious. I wonder what good stuff Doyle Redmond will bring to video.
2. ae | March 10th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
The best fake news program I’ve ever seen is the Australian Broadcasting Company’s “CNNN” (url by clicking on my name)
Too bad it hasn’t been updated since 2003.
3. Brad | March 11th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Wow, that looks really good.
I hope the clips are longer than the Onion Radio News clips. On the one hand, 30 second clips are a perfect spoof of most radio news, but it almost takes longer to load the web page than to listen to the audio.
4. Cale | March 11th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
AE you are so right i just watched a couple clips from CNNN. it’s probably the funnies thing i’ve ever seen. Thanks for the link.
5. Dave | March 11th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
So is the Onion News Network, also called ‘ONN’?
I’m curious because there’s also ONN, the Ohio News Network.
Hopefully, that won’t lead to problems.
6. ae | March 11th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Cale, they have a full length DVD (sadly in PAL Region 2 format only) that is a spoof of CNN’s coverage of OJ Simpson’s infamous car chase.
If you search YouTube, you might find clips of it.
7. The Tony | March 11th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Exciting.
I haven’t visited The Onion’s website in forever, but suddenly, after seeing that, I’m intrigued again.
Long live the parody.
8. Lyle | March 12th, 2007 at 12:29 am
I hope the clips are a decent length… I ended up unsubscribing to their podcast because the stories, while funny, were shorter than the time it took to browse to the latest segment and listen to the ad. I don’t mind ads in podcasts, but the content should dwarf the ad.
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