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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC's Ben Collins just bought The Onion
I swear this is real.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social
NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. Ill be the CEO.
Were keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, were going to let them do whatever they want.
Get excited.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/media/the-onion-sold.html
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM
archive link to this NYT story: https://archive.ph/mT4xX
In an interview, Mr. Lawson said that he had long wanted to buy The Onion and had pursued the project at various points in time before linking up with Mr. Collins, who started pondering the idea early this year.
The world needs laughter; it needs satirical criticism more than ever, Mr. Lawson said. And thats why we think this is the right time and the right way to help The Onion continue to grow, continue to flourish, and frankly Im concerned if we hadnt done this, I dont know what would have happened.
Mr. Collins said audiences had a longstanding connection to The Onion and noted that many of the websites writers and editors had been there for years...
senseandsensibility
(17,157 posts)rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)making bizarre legal arguments.
ShazzieB
(16,542 posts)Mopar151
(10,002 posts)But a promising second career path awaits his disbarment .
NJCher
(35,756 posts)a truthteller who they have tried to shut up.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,429 posts)except for what I can find on the internet,
but digital onions do nothing for my spaghetti or chicken gumbo.....
God bless the digital ONion.....
DemocraticPatriot
(4,429 posts)Never heard of it before I read about them in Hemingway novels--
'Islands in the Stream' to be precise, the one that was published long after his death....
so I decided to try it....
and I love it!
The onions moisten the peanut butter,
and the peanut butter mellows the onions!
IT WORKS!!!
and tastes fine too, all together!
(I make them on whole wheat bread, usually toasted)
Obviously that was 'a thing' about 70 years ago, since he bothered to mention it in his last novel...
but I had to read it before I ever heard of it
tulipsandroses
(5,128 posts)He has done so much work in the far right wing space. His voice in that area, will be missed on MSNBC.
DemInBuckhead
(111 posts)It's potentially really good news that the Onion is out from under G/O Media. Four or five years ago, the writers for Deadspin (also under G/O) quit en masse because of how horrible G/O had made that site.
I wish the Onion folks well; I would pick up their printed newspapers in Champaign, and was happy to see that they went online after I left the Midwest where you could pick up a physical copy.
betsuni
(25,668 posts)Or finished it off anyway.
I used to buy The Onion printed version too.
calimary
(81,523 posts)I hope The Onion carries on for many years. We don't just love it, we need it!
betsuni
(25,668 posts)Before Dark Brandon there was this:
AKwannabe
(5,681 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,299 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)Ben Collins is a good man
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Eventually their website became obnoxiously cluttered with ads and pop ups. That's just too much effort to get the little inside jokes they do.