After a decade, The Onion has announced it has corrected a computer error that has been detrimental to its reputation. 
The news source, known for its humorous parodies of real news, has stated that the ongoing problem has finally been addressed, when they located and closed an open <sarcasm> tag.
“It appears as though the initial programmers were poorly trained in HTML and left this tag open in all of our articles” commented Sasha Jenkins, The Onion’s PR specialist. “When the site first started, we didn’t understand why a simple news site was garnering so much attention. We kinda went with it and just kept writing”.
The error wasn’t realized until a writer wrote a staff memo about his wife being pregnant, only to have it delivered as a fake Christmas card featuring Frosty the snow man raping young children with a carrot penis.
When asked what was next for the once satirical website, editor Scott Dikkens replied: “Now The Onion can become the agricultural news network it was intended to be”, adding “I just hope farmers will forgive us after that piece about using hillbilly babies as fertilizer”.
Lemon Snickers is personally outraged that such an unreliable news source is allowed to exist.
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