Some good news from media land! Satire outlet The Onion is under new management, with one of the owners being Jeff Lawson, co-founder of Twilio, the cloud communications firm with a market value of $11 billion. “The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it,” says Lawson, the new chairman. “But its success is based on something different than most media companies. The Onion has been stifled, along with most of the internet, by byzantine cookie dialogs, paywalls, bizarro belly fat ads, and clickbait. The Internet sucks, and it’s time we made it better.” The new CEO will be Ben Collins, the reporter who previously covered disinformation, extremism and the internet for NBC. He says that the plan is to work with the union, keep all the writers, and "make it so they can hopefully get paid a little bit more money." Here's more from Deadline.
I'm surprised The Onion was sold to a man named Jeff Lawson. Lawson is linked to a trust that financially backs a San Francisco-based company called Global Tetrahedron. This is part of The Onion's long time running gags, it's an evil mega corporation! Somebody must be a super fan if this is the case! ROFL
I thought this was a parody article, like #TheOnion, because of how over-the-top ridiculous it is, but the joke never arrived. This is actually a serious article written by a right-wing loon that accurately reflects the #MAGA mindset. In that light, it's horrifying.
Just waiting for The Onion to drop their regular "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" news item. What a crazy country :\ #TheOnion