Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam 110
Long before Stewart or Colbert were on TV you could count on The Onion to bring you your daily dose of fake or funny news. After the recent publication of their 1000th issue, a small but growing movement has started pushing for the Pulitzer Prize to be awarded to the satirical site. The Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes website encourages readers to submit videos on why they think The Onion deserves the honor. The movement has grown so large that you can find videos from Tom Hanks and Arianna Huffington among the user submissions.
Why Not? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Precognition? (Score:5, Insightful)
My favorite Onion prognostication was "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades" [theonion.com].
Re:Precognition? (Score:5, Insightful)
One of their most accurate predictions was surely this one: Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over [theonion.com].
Re:Prizes for everyone (Score:3, Insightful)
Nevermind that scientists ripped it for being terrible science. But if it pushes the agenda you want to hear, so be it.
I hear scientists also ripped apart evolution and the link between smoking and cancer too. My own research has been subjected to withering criticism from time to time as well, you might call that "ripping it apart."
You -could- conclude that diverse interpretations exist on all data, the truth is often hard to identify, most scientific issues are complicated with plenty of room for disagreement. Maybe one should conclude that scientists say a lot of things, but that doesn't make it true. Sometimes one or a few scientists may be right and the rest wrong, sometimes not.
Wait, what the hell am I saying? It's far better and easier to insist that if a scientist said it, it must be true, even if other scientists say otherwise. Global warming isn't happening, and my research is right no matter what my committee or reviewers say! There's just a massive conspiracy among evil scientists to get rid of our beloved SUVs, our dangerous coal power, our delicious cigarettes, convince us we're apes, and deny me my PhD!
Either way, creating a movie about environmental awareness while flying everywhere on a private jet apparently gets you a prize dedicated to Peace.
Wait wait wait wait wait... you're telling me that a POLITICIAN... is... is.. is a HYPOCRITE?!?!?
[falls dead of shock]
Well, that clearly proves that whatever he was arguing for was false. What's an "ad-homenim argument"? Doesn't matter I guess.