'Onion' Snubbed By Pulitzers

American Voices

June 24, 2011 | ISSUE 47•25

This year, the Pulitzer Board has once again neglected to bestow an award upon The Onion. What do you think?

You too? Man, those guys are dicks to everybody.

Tina Gladstone
Systems Analyst
If I know the Pulitzer Board, they are just drawing out the process to heighten the suspense. The Pulitzer Board thrives on adrenaline.

Brendan Hoppus
Train Clerk
Of course they did. The Pulitzer is a prize for third-rate, unrefined journalistic excrement masquerading as enlightened commentary, correct? How else does George Will have one?

Frederick Malina
Unemployed

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