If you were wondering…
I didn’t get the job at The Onion. Officially. I think what torpedoed me was the actual article I was asked to edit. Looking at it now, it’s clear I did too much, manipulated certain things for display, not for the story itself. A good editor isn’t timid, of course, but the article looked vandalized by the time I was done with it. I didn’t edit it. I tagged it. However, they did ask me to test as headline writer. If I got that gig, I’d send in headlines every week and get paid for whatever they used. Headlines were actually part of the editor test and the portion I had the most confidence in. That probably means they’ll not only decline to work with me, but that they’ll also send an intern to garrote me.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I was recently turned down by The Onion as well. Earlier today I flipped through your book Oh, the Humanity and, seeing that a funny guy such a yourself can get rejected by the like of them, I don’t feel so bad.