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Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by dev_by_day »

bigfudge wrote: post #186
dev_by_day wrote: post #178

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It’s so niche that it regularly wins the popular vote in the US despite massive voter suppression. The only reason the god n guns lobby wins in the US is 1. the constitutional settlement which massively overweights rural voters and 2. corporate lobbying in a winner takes all system which is prepared to hold its nose and bankroll racist hicks if it means they get their corporate welfare. You are a great nation, but ve…

You misinterpreted Democrats and progressives, most Democrats, minorities and liberals are closer to the center left rather than extreme left. Polling from many reliable places, including pew, shows Progressive ideology is dominated by upper class white people.

Why do you think stripping resources from the police was so popular amongst upper class intectuals but not what black Americans actually wanted according to the actual data. Progressivism in America is an ideology that represents the upper class, not minorities nor traditional liberals nor the working class.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by orf »

paulpauper wrote: post #26

I guess it's cheaper than a real news site, and is there any difference anymore? Babylon Bee has become defacto news now. I don't mean this in terms of blaming the left or the right, but just that it's hard for any entity to have any monopoly on the truth anymore. Mainstream, established news sites have to compete against AI-generated content and influencers in the 'news space', which has blurred the lines between tr…

The Babylon Bee has got to be the most braindead thing I’ve stumbled upon in a long time.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by spencerflem »

paulpauper wrote: post #26

I guess it's cheaper than a real news site, and is there any difference anymore? Babylon Bee has become defacto news now. I don't mean this in terms of blaming the left or the right, but just that it's hard for any entity to have any monopoly on the truth anymore. Mainstream, established news sites have to compete against AI-generated content and influencers in the 'news space', which has blurred the lines between tr…

I downvoted because:

1. Babylon Bee has like 1 good article for every 20-30 lame ones and in general spreads anti-trans hate. It is not news

& 2. fake news is a problem, but fake news doesn't make the onion no different from a real news site. that's silly

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by Intralexical »

bitsinthesky wrote: post #103
pabs3 wrote: post #102

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Yeah, or send them to archive.org for scanning and publishing on the web.

And these fullpage scans provide value above what theonion.com already provides?

You're never quite sure what you're actually looking at on the web.

Was this edited at any point after the listed publish date? Did it survive intact during the backend migrations since? Is that formatting supposed to be a bit weird? Is there originally supposed to be an image after that oddly placed paragraph break?

What did it look like back when `` and `` were still a thing? Did it look better at 800x600? Did it show the same page to all user-agents?

Hard copies, physical reality (or at least rasters), are still the ultimate form of immutability.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by hnlmorg »

dev_by_day wrote: post #183
hnlmorg wrote: post #180

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I really get sick and tired of this ongoing pseudo-religious war between the left and the right. Can’t you express your opinion in a way that isn’t antagonistic?

Ben collins is a promoter of this left right war, he was literally suspended for being biased. That is not a good reporter, he is a beneficiary of the culture war and its disrespectful to actual factual journalism to call him anything else but a political stereographer who is out to push ideology above facts.

Collins isn’t the person writing your comments. You are.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by jamiek88 »

ghostpepper wrote: post #147

Since everyone is just posting their favourite headlines: Report: Average Male 4,000% Less Effective In Fights Than They Imagine What makes the onion writing truly great is how they discipline themselves to stick to a single bit for a given article. The entire punchline is in the headline, and the rest of the article is about as straight-laced as you could imagine, as if it was written by a real reporter in a world w…

That’s why the Colbert Report was so good as well.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by reaLg_move_in_3 »

orf wrote: post #188
dev_by_day wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ben collins is a promoter of this left right war, he was literally suspended for being biased. That is not a good reporter, he is a beneficiary of the culture war and its disrespectful to actual factual journalism to call him anything else but a political stereographer who is out to push ideology above facts.

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Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by rmason »

tanaros wrote: post #62
rmason wrote: post #3

Jeff Lawson has state of Michigan connections. A University of Michigan grad he started a digital textbook company, but was just too early. Then he was founding CTO of StubHub which is based in Detroit. I regret never actually meeting him though we have some mutual friends in common. Tried to get him to speak at a hackathon I was running in Detroit during his early days at Twilio but he was simply too busy which I ca…

Why is Michigan relevant to buying The Onion?

It is not, just sharing some information about the guy's background a lot of folks might not know. Might explain why he didn't insist in moving them from Chicago and relocating them to the West coast.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by thrownawayfray »

chomp wrote: post #92
culturthrowaway wrote: post #56

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This is a splash of cold water if you're familiar with who Ben Collins is. This will not not be a return to The Onion you fondly remember. Most likely it will be a continuation in the same direction it's been going.

Ben Collins, the guy who got suspended from MSNBC for criticizing Elon Musk too hard? Upset Nate Silver because he criticized him too hard? Upset Matt Taibbi for making fun of him for doing PR work for a billionaire? I think he’s perfect for the job honestly.

If _MSNBC_ thinks he’s too overtly partisan and not up to journalistic standards, I’d say Collins fails to clear the absolute lowest bar in news media ethics.
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