One unintended feature that I really like about the Onion news feed is that each entry is uncategorized. That is, it’s not clear whether it’s a news “brief,” an article, or one of the “What do you think?” questions.
Now, normally it doesn’t matter. But I don’t usually click through if it looks like an article because most of the joke of an article is the headline. However, the “What do you think?” entries have all the jokes in the body of the article via man-on-the-street responses.
“But how can you tell which ones are which if they’re uncategorized?” I hear you say. And there’s rub. The “What do you think?” entries all deal with actual — though sometimes absurd — real news, while the articles are fake news. It’s a bit of a game to tell the difference.