Since When is The Onion Recycling Stories?
This week’s Onion is running a story–albeit a hilarious one–that they published close to two years ago. “Nation in Love with Girl From Record Store” is not new (although the original version seems to have been removed from the site’s archives). And, well, it’s really lame if such a great publication, a la Charles Schultz and Snoopy, is recycling material and not telling its readers.
Update (Wednesday evening): Mike W. writes:
Newls:
Don’t know if you were overcome by the prospect of spending your Thanksgiving in a foreign land or if you were just in a rush to pick up Mechum, but whatever the case, your critical reading was evidentally compromised. Your Onion posting dated 11/25 was critical of the apparent “recycled” nature of the Record Store Girl article, yet the Onion Home Page clearly explains that the entire issue is recycled. The headline reads: This issue of The Onion is made from 100 percent recycled materials. We’ll return Dec. 3. Read The Onion A.V. Club’s all-new issue. Check it out: http://www.theonion.com/ Keep it up and you’ll have to change your tagline to “an Amerian Conspiracy Theorist Living and Teaching in Ecuador.” I did enjoy the article though…
Thanks for the heads-up, Mike. My only defense: when I wrote that post, The Onion wasn’t carrying that disclaimer. But now, at any rate, I can stop hyperventilating. I appreciate you keeping me in check; I shall dispense with the conspiracy theories…