The term Bus plunge is an idiom referencing a journalistic practice of reporting bus accidents in short articles that describe the vehicle as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. [1] [2] [3] The phenomenon has been noted in The New York Times , which published many bus plunge stories from the 1950s through the 1980s, running about 20 such articles in 1968 alone. [4]
Commentators on the "bus plunge" phenomenon have suggested that such reports were printed not because they were considered particularly newsworthy, but because they could be reduced to a few lines and used to fill gaps in the page layout. Further, the words "bus" and "plunge" are short, and can be used in one-column headlines within the narrow, eight-column format that was prevalent in newspapers through the first half of the 20th century. [4] [3] Columnist John McIntyre has called the reports "phatic journalism" that pretends to inform the reader about world events without any significant news gathering. [5] The development of computerized layout tools in the 1970s eventually reduced the need for such filler stories, but newswires continue to carry them. [4] [3]
The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. The Onion began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. In 2013, The Onion stopped publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency. The Onion was then acquired three times, first by Univision in 2016, which later merged The Onion and its several other publications into those of Gizmodo Media Group. This unit was sold in 2019 to Great Hill Partners, forming a new company named G/O Media. Then, in April 2024, G/O Media sold The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a firm newly created by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, which revived the print edition in August that year.
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