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Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Readers loved The Onion’s 9/11 issue, even though it wasn’t that funny

September 2, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

Agreed. It was pitch perfect, a truly remarkable achievement, up there with LIFE‘s November 29, 1963 issue, which was a normal number literally on its way to the presses on Friday the 22nd, and which had to be junked, rewritten and redesigned from scratch (well, mostly — they left in some weird stuff…) then printed as quickly as humanly possible — before Photoshop, fax machines, word processors, PageMaker… not to mention the internet. It was mostly done with glue and booze.

Yahoo! News:

On September 10, 2001, employees of  the satirical national newspaper, The Onion, gathered at the Bowery Ballroom on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for a party to celebrate their first New York issue, which was due to be published the next day…

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