The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the satirical newspaper's feed and proceeded to post a string of anti-Semitic and anti-Qatari messages. The Onion responded with satirical articles.
When life gives you trolls, laugh at 'em. Baratunde Thurston, author of [i]How to Be Black [/i]and former director of digital for [i]The Onion[/i], deals with Internet haters by being as absurd as humanly possible.
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The Onion's digital director helps satisfy America's hunger for journalistic honesty with a steady stream of fake news. Here are some of the photos he may or may not have taken himself, but they've influenced both his reverence for world events and the irreverent ways he covers them.
From Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" to The Onion to Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report," fake news has become as much a part of the national dialogue as the real news it parodies. Why? The Onion's Baratunde Thurston shared his thoughts with the audience at Fast Company's recent Most Creative People in Business 2011 event.
