Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011
The Onion's Spoofs
We've been the focal point of a number of spoofs by that fake, satirical rag The Onion, so we'd like to take a minute to address the newspaper's writers and editors. Dear sirs and madams: So, you guys think it's funny to pretend that TIME magazine is written for toddlers? Is your idea of comedy making fun of our 100 Most Influential People list by coming up with a list of 299 million least influential people, including a man named Jim Stutts from Fort Wayne, Ind.? Is it really humorous to call us "desperate" and to satirize our award-winning Person of the Year issue with a new Man of June edition featuring UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon? Well, all right. All that stuff was pretty funny.