MOSCOW—Returning from beyond the grave to seek revenge on Vladimir Putin for the Russian president’s suspected involvement in his untimely death, the late oligarch and Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has begun marching toward the Kremlin with an army of 25,000 undead soldiers, sources reported Monday. “I live…
why do they write articles like this?
For fun
It actually started for education. It was written by journalism students at University of Wisconsin, but then spun off
You should click around that website a little bit, it’s not actually a newspaper in any real sense, just a lot of riffing on current events.
Why does the onion, a satirical paper, write satirical articles?
Humor would be the goal. Humor of course differs from person to person. It doesn’t always land. The other half of satire is putting a looking glass on absurdities of life.
The problem is reality has gotten so ridiculous in the past, shall we say decade, that small bits of satire meant to get a smirk are no longer humorous, because of the horrors that go on everyday.
So they have to be even more ridiculous than the world, hence a zombie horde in Russia.