The Onion Is Sold by G/O Media | The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion’s staff.

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• Drusas@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Our goal is to be stewards for this thing,” he said. “We’re keeping all the writers, we’re going to work with the union, we’re going to make it so they can hopefully get paid a little bit more money, and we’re going to give them the room to grow.”

  The new owners said they planned to improve user experience on the website and expand into multimedia, but otherwise wanted The Onion’s staff members to continue to do the work they’ve been doing.

  Sounds alright.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Onion, which started in 1988 in Wisconsin as a weekly satirical newspaper and later became a website, is known for its parodies of current events. For the last decade, it has republished the same headline after nearly every mass shooting: “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”

  It’s really sad that reposting that headline is what they’re prominently known for (based on its placement near the top of the article). Not sad for The Onion, mind you, but it is sad nonetheless.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Onion lost its way. It used to be full of satire and hilarious articles and headlines. Now it just posts politically motivated, semi satire attack articles, that aren’t even funny anymore.

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  • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or you became more conservative as you aged…

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      more conservative an asshole as you aged…

      ftfy

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well shit.

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