It is presumed our predecessors discovered and started eating wild onions very early — long before farming or even writing was invented. Very likely, this humble vegetable was a staple in the prehistoric diet. Most researchers agree the onion has been cultivated for years or more. Since onions grew wild in various regions, they were probably consumed for thousands of years and domesticated simultaneously all over the world. Onions may be one of the earliest cultivated crops because they were less perishable than other foods of the time, were transportable, were easy to grow, and could be grown in a variety of soils and climates.
In addition, the onion was useful for sustaining human life. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. It's hard because the real news has gotten so absurd. Mike Desmond. As a reporter for WBFO, he has covered literally thousands of stories involving education, science, business, the environment and many other issues. Several months after the release of Our Dumb Century, Westwood One began syndicating Onion Radio News, a feature that was aired on 45 radio stations nationwide.
The beginning of the 21st century brought significant change to Onion, Inc. It just needed some discipline on the business side. The move, made at the end of , put the writers near the site of the following year's catastrophe, an event that tested the boundaries of satire in the aftermath of devastation.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, silenced the comedy world. For painfully obvious reasons, those who normally applied a humorous slant to news events could find nothing humorous in the deaths of thousands and the losses suffered by thousands more. David Letterman and Jay Leno, the two comedic oracles of late-light television, did not refer to the attacks. Saturday Night Live and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show aired re-runs, as writers and producers pondered when, how, and if to touch the subject of the attacks.
In the wake of the attacks, the writing staff at the Onion struggled with what their response, if any, should be. Siegel explained that if he and his writers avoided the subject "we would have looked painfully irrelevant--it would make us ask why do we even exist if we would resist weighing in on the biggest news story since Pearl Harbor. The Onion , the first of its ilk to do so, responded directly to the attacks in its September 26, edition. Instead of writing a single article about September 11th and its aftermath, the writers devoted the entire issue to the subject.
Headlines in the issue. The writing staff at the Onion distinguished themselves in and enjoyed themselves in For the Onion , a newspaper that mocked the practices and tone of traditional newspapers, nothing could deliver more pleasure than a legitimate newspaper using one of its fabricated stories as legitimate news.
In its June 26, edition, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette did just that, using a piece written by the Onion writers two weeks earlier. Club is the entertainment arm of Onion Inc. Business may not be booming just yet, but McAvoy says it's healthy and projected to keep growing. In , the writer Farhad Manjoo noted how The Onion had responded clumsily to pressures within the digital media industry.
Like many companies, Onion Inc. By mid-summer, the company plans to launch Onion Studios, a standalone hub that will host videos from The Onion , The A. Club , and ClickHole alongside original programming. The studio model represents a new way to make money through development deals on film, television, and digital platforms. Club than The Onion.
You'll see a mix of executions from us," he said. Sponsors will underwrite each of those sites. So, what will the future of The Onion look like? Will the classic news-parody format survive as the company turns toward other, much more profitable projects? Yes, obviously. The Onion is a comedy institution.
It's the newspaper that built a media company from " Area Man " jokes and spectacular wordplay. One thing is certain: if the media industry changes, expect The Onion to adapt with it. We want to optimize for advertisers and give them whatever they want. We want to give them full control of our homepage and our content. After that, we'll let the readers do what they want.
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