Over the edge.

AuthorSoave, Robby
PositionBriefly Noted - Television program review - Brief article

HBO's two-year-old, award-winning documentary series Vice--which immerses smugly self-assured journalists in trouble spots to whitesplain the locals' problems to American audiences--was always ripe for parody. Now The Onion does so with Edge, a faux news series that directs viewers, in the words of faux correspondent Nic Moss, to "get fucked on truth."

Edge newscasters' over-the-top profanity and insistence that their reporting is too fringe for other journalists--"Nothing but silence from mainstream media," tweeted Chase Vaughn, an Edge personae--is a joke at the expense of Vice, which was a...

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