--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess it could be, but I'm not sure why, since every paper has to be > published somewhere. Calling it a Midwestern paper simply refers to > where it is published, not to any POV or anything else. In that sense, > I think the description is accurate.
Jeepers. But it's an *online parody site*. Its only purpose is parody. It doesn't report news (although it does parody current events). It may have a print edition for all I know, but its primary presence is on the Web and has been for some years. And it doesn't have a particularly Midwestern orientation. To call it a "Midwestern paper" suggests a publication along the lines of the Des Moines Register. Its shining hour, in my opinion, was shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Its 9/26 issue had a series of absolutely brilliant pieces that made you laugh and cry at the same time. One of them was an interview with the terrorists in hell, reporting their astonishment at finding themselves there, enduring excruciating agonies, when they'd fully expected to be in Paradise being serviced by beautiful virgins. If your raison d'etre is to make fun of things, what the heck do you do in the face of horrific tragedy? The Onion somehow managed to figure out just what combination of humor and pathos would evoke a desperately needed catharsis, without ever slipping into bad taste. An extraordinary depth of compassion went into creating that issue, it seemed to me. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
