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Your Cousin Says Prison Food 'Not So Bad'10.23.09

The U.S. Justice System Will Be Replaced By A New Prison Lottery02.01.08

Smoking Ban Collapses Fragile Prison Economy02.01.08

Prison Warden Appears On Leno With Some Of His Favorite Prisoners02.01.08

Your Cousin Says Prison Food Not So Bad08.09.07

Prison Tattoo Artist Says It's A Swastika Or Nothing08.01.06

Veteran Who Stormed Beach At Normandy Still Getting Laid Because Of It11.22.08

NORAD Headquarters Crawling With Missile Weevils05.21.08

Officer Passed Over For General Still Asked To Contribute Battle Plans11.20.07

U.S. Troops Fortified With Hot, Nutritious Breakfast05.15.07

Google Steps In To Help U.S. With Google Navy03.16.07

Coalition: Vast Majority Of Iraqis Still Alive02.17.07

Marine Never Knew What Freedom Was Until He Left The Marines12.09.06

Pirate Written Up For Dress-Code Violation04.22.11

Calvin Klein To Build Runway Control Tower After Tragic Five-Model Pileup11.03.08

New Denim Jacket Bolsters Consumer Self-Confidence09.03.08

Small Fluffy Dog To Head House Of Versace08.05.08

Visible Panty Line Discussed Like It's Cancer05.10.07

Miss Universe Spends Awkward Elevator Ride With Miss Alternate Universe08.09.06

Man Forced To Witness Own $10 Haircut08.03.06

Phil's Party Reminds Area Man Why He Doesn't Go To Phil's Parties11.21.08

Man Born To Party Dies Partying05.31.08

Area Man Got His Tattoos While Serving In College01.26.08

Nation's Deans Meet To Discuss Problem Of Sexy College Girls Going Wild01.26.08

Fraternity Brother Forced To Find Asshole Friends In Real World05.24.07

Everyone On Campus Afraid Of That One Bar05.19.07

No One Stabbed Or Anything At Off-Campus Party11.27.06

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The Onion Radio News has been the most highly regarded broadcast news source in the world since visionary Onion publisher T.Herman Zweibel made the bold move in 1922 to shut down the popular Onion Telegraph News and focus on the then embryonic medium of radio. From day one Zweibel intended to employ this new technology for the public good, and for the first two years he devoted much of his airtime to denouncing silent film actress Louise Brooks.

Overnight, Zweibel's vitriolic attacks gained sufficient listenership to attract wealthy sponsors like Campbell's Liquid Beef and Spotto potato detergent. The financial success of the Onion Radio News led Zweibel to hire professional "pronouncers," as they were called then, who were charged with the important task of reading items from the printed version of The Onion to fill time between Zweibel's marathon anti-flapper rants.

In 1947, a polyp the size of a Concord grape on Zweibel's vocal cords forced him to stop his nightly rants, allowing the Onion Radio News to finally become one of the first 24-hour news outlets.

Today the Onion Radio News, anchored by Doyle Redland, continues to inspire and inform millions of listeners around the world and has become the living embodiment of the power of the spoken news word.

A 14-year-old Doyle Redland began working at the Onion Radio News Office as an office page in 1963. After leaving to receive a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and a short lived job at CBS Evening news, he returned in 1974 to the Onion Radio News to become an anchor, where he has remained. Redland is fluent in two languages, enjoys cooking, and is an avid cross-country skier. He shares a home in Racine, Wisconsin with two black labs, Freedom and Liberty.