First of all I would like to say thanks to you all for turning in your radio reports. I have found that you can download Ira Glass's 'This American Life' radio episodes free through iTunes blog listings. Give it a try. The Canadian Broadcast Corp. is going to start broadcasting 'The American Life' in Canada this year and they also consider Ira to be the best radio show host in America.
Second is we have talked about and looked at Onion the comedy critic of news on the internet and now this:Onion's sports, news satires to air on TV

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The Onion is set to launch its biting media satire on television after having skewered the industry in print and online for years.

First up next week will be SportsDome, a weekly series mocking TV sports shows and general coverage with its overbearing male hosts, bouncy graphics and blaring theme music and sound effects that could easily be mistaken for the real thing.

The show, featuring a pair of co-hosts named Mark Shepard and Alex Reiser, will air on Comedy Central and The Comedy Network.

Later this month, the Onion News Network will also debut its programming on the Independent Film Channel, with a show called FactZone that skewers cable news excesses and whose tagline is "News without mercy."

IFC first announced the project in March 2010, saying it was part of a plan to stretch the specialty channel's boundaries.

FactZone, hosted by a comely, miniskirt-clad female anchor named Brooke Alvarez, is billed as "the nation's No. 1 source for breaking news, screaming political arguments and vital information on missing teenage Caucasian girls."

The same teams behind the Onion's wildly popular "fake news" videos on its website are also responsible for the two new TV projects.

"Our Onion fake media empire is slowly taking over real media. Eventually, we'll have 36 shows on different networks," executive producer Will Graham told The Associated Press.

"We're more self-important and pretentious than CNN, and we're more aggressive and biased than Fox.

"We think of them as our competitors. Fox News and MSNBC set a very high bar for their level of ridiculousness, and we're always thinking, 'We have to go just 10 per cent higher than they are'."

The Onion's online video unit was presented with a prestigious Peabody Award in 2009, with the prize panel hailing the satirical site's "online send-up of 24-hour cable-TV news" as "hilarious, trenchant and not infrequently hard to distinguish from the real thing."


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