The Onion takes a truthfully journalistic approach to fake news? Baratunde Thurston explains (video)

The Onion is everyone's favorite fake newspaper, and also now a favorite fake TV news network (not to be confused with Comedy Central's The Daily Show, which makes fun of the real news). Just watch The Onion News Network's report this week on Internet archaeologists uncovering a long-lost site called "Friendster." But that doesn't mean that it's not journalism. Of course, you probably knew that -- and the AV Club department does act as an actual entertainment news organization -- but the new documentary outfit Breaking The New News wanted to know more, and they went right to the source in Onion Web Editor Baratunde Thurston. Here he is to explain what's what. Roll the clip!

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[becca]

Just followed Baratunde Thurston on Twitter a few weeks ago. Substantive AND funny!

A thing like that!

[actuallyfunnycomic]

He would die without Twitter!