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The Onion.(Brief Article)(Interview)
After taking a week off, the online news parodists at The Onion have seen weekly traffic nearly double in the wake of the attacks. Why? "You're the first people that have made any sense of this," e-mails one fan. NEWSWEEK's Bret Begun talked with editor Robert Siegel.
BEGUN: Recently you wrote "A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bulls--- Again." It's not too soon?
SIEGEL: Part of the healing process is to embrace the petty and insignificant. We miss being able to care about stupid things. We miss being able to be mean to each other, because that means we're all alive and well. I'd rather those people be alive and all of us just walk around not making eye contact, saying bitchy things about each other behind our backs.
How has what The Onion's able to say changed?
Stories we normally would say are fine in terms of offensiveness we did not run because we did not want to come off as callous. We had one, "America Stronger Than Ever, Say Quadragon Officials." The Pentagon was reduced to four sides. That was going to be the one-liner. But you say to yourself, "Does this laugh do more harm than good?" We went with "Massive Attack On Pentagon Page 14 News." Normally, we'd go much, much ...
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