The Onion Story

<b><i>The Onion</i></b><b>’s longtime co-owner and longest-serving editor-in-chief Scott Dikkers regales readers with never-before-told anecdotes from the beloved satiric newsroom in this celebration of creativity, resilience, and the transformative power of jokes delivered in AP style.</b><BR><BR>In this laugh-out-loud origin story of a world-renowned satirist and “America’s Finest News Source” Scott Dikkers treats you to a rollicking trip through the 80s, 90s, and 00s, chronicling the inception, evolution, and success of <I>The Onion</I> from his view at the helm. With his famous wit and wisdom Dikkers chronicles the paper’s founding, run-ins with the law, scrapes with death, and raving-mad antics of its staff in chapters like:<BR> <ul> <li>Childhood Trauma Mined for Cheap Laugh</li> <li>Hurriedly Collected Life Savings Invested Wisely</li> <li>Stop Put to All This Horseplay</li> <li>Award-winning Local Author Inspired, Drunk</li> <li>Look, Area Man on TV</li> <li>Office Internet Briefly Used for Work</li> </ul> <BR>If you’ve ever been duped into believing an <I>Onion</I> headline, or simply laughed to avoid crying at how closely its fake news articles resembled reality, get a first-person view from the mastermind himself of the publication’s unparalleled legacy as the world’s most trusted news source, celebrated for its fearless commitment to truth-telling under the guise of satire.