Took a bit, but I finally got what they were satirizing. Not particularly funny, but true.

I agree with you, it does take a bit to see the full scope of what they're making fun of (or pointing out). Even tragedies like school shootings are or kidnappings turn into a frenzy of rumors and gossip. When you ask the media why they do it, they don't have the integrity to come out and say why.

Ad revenue and viewership is what they are concerned about (as is The Onion ironically). Good journalism is second; the social soapbox for their bias comes first and it shows painfully, as in this parody of the real thing.

Meh, I'm usually all for the onion but this time they seemed to miss their mark. Something about the timing of the jokes was off and took a lot of the funny out of the satire.

The un-funniness turned it into something that seemed to be done in poor taste.

"Was a known murderer"... oh man. No, they nailed it.

Ah the miscellaneous ant downvote...

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Revived! Looks like The Onion changed something about their embed coding as it completely fails with it's "new" code and the previous code I was using. I hope that didn't kill everyone's Onion videos... Used a Hulu embed for now, you'll have to deal with the short commercial at the start until I can change it to something I like better--without commercials, higher quality, or better yet a direct Onion link...