Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, an immigrant tuber-farmer, when accidentally founded in 1756 his The Mercantile Onion newspaper (named so because those were the only words he knew in English) after bartering a sack of yams for a second-hand printing press, hardly could imagine into what immense and famous network it will grow. Today ONN, The Onion News Network, is available in different formats: print, online and radio with the monthly audience of its misinformed readers alone reaching over 7 million. And the number of the misinformed listeners of the ONN radio version is still larger and keeps growing due also largely to new applications that make this wonderful, witty, amusing and interesting source of national news available to still larger audience.

Available as an app for iPhones, iPad and iPod tough, today ONN provides most thoughtful, outstanding and entertaining commentary on the USA current events with relevant interviews, and reports, and expert opinions – all this to the extent that the gullible audience loses this subtle border separating “onion” from the reality of life.

The Onion News Network app offers its users a number of sections to choose from, such as editor’s most sharpened picks, interesting and amusing clips, and a number of quality shows including Today Now, Onion Sports Network, In the Know with Clifford Barnes, O-Span and Tech Trends. In addition to all these, the Onion News Network app also provides an access to its entire archives with available search function. Still another useful option it provides is that of sorting all this content by the most popular.

The target audience of the Onion today is adults aged 17 and older as it contains comments of subtle sexual background, crude humor and profanity nature to a wide range or genuinely adult issues such as references to tobacco, alcohol, or drug use, as well as quite a number of other mature themes that may accidentally shock younger people if they listen to or read it. That is why it is recommended to keep children away from this amusing source until they become of age.

Available in different formats now, ONN always sticks to its fundamental purpose of introducing some fun into the news media flooded with serious, grave and stressful information. Another thing it stays true to is that it always hits the point.