Well, as the Onion's specialty is parody and satire, you betcha. I do think (as Greg Feeley has noted elsewhere) that much of the Onion's best work is in its headlines; the articles tend to go on too long and belabor a slim point.
The Onion starts by brainstorming headlines, and seeing how far the ideas take them -- the sidebars, the news-in-briefs, and features all start the same way, iow.
I'm the author of a bunch of books, including five Regency romances, a Marvel Comics superhero novel, The Stone War, a dark urban fantasy in which I blew up my home town, and Point of Honour and Petty Treason, the first two books in the adventures of Sarah Tolerance, Fallen Woman and Private Eye. I've also published a double-handful of SF and fantasy stories.
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Well, as the Onion's specialty is parody and satire, you betcha. I do think (as Greg Feeley has noted elsewhere) that much of the Onion's best work is in its headlines; the articles tend to go on too long and belabor a slim point.
The Onion starts by brainstorming headlines, and seeing how far the ideas take them -- the sidebars, the news-in-briefs, and features all start the same way, iow.
---L.
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