The Onion Humor Satire
Arizona State University students enjoyed a visit and humor satire presentation from two writers at "America's finest news source", aka The Onion. Sam West and Dave Kornfeld set out to explain the inner workings of "serious journalism" at the Tempe campus. West, who writes video content for The Onion, told students that organizations like his exist primarily to make people laugh and to serve as a relief from the horrors of the real world.
To prove their claim at the outset that they are indeed "serious journalists", the two presented bar graphs showing that The Onion captivated an audience of trillions, eclipsing other news sources like The New York Times. There was also a highlight reel of The Onion's best headlines since it's start in 1988 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including gems like "Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian", and "Prospective Student Had Most Fun Getting Drunk at Arizona State."