I remember my first introduction to the onion was the print edition at my university. What a great publication- and they authored what has to be the best amicus brief to the Supreme Court ever. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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#52He wants to be Marc Benioff so bad.
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#53I think this is good news, because G/O Media websites are the worst. I was at UW-Madison when The Onion started. We had a wealth of student newspapers at the time, along with The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald. Scott Dikkers and Todd Hanson, writers for The Onion, also wrote great comic strips for the Cardinal (Jim's Journal and Badgers and Other Animals, respectively). Some favorite Onion headlines that I reme…
My favorite was "Klemke wins!" the day after Obama was elected. https://www.theonion.com/klemke-wins-1819570336
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#54This is great news. Jim Spanfeller and G/O media are pretty well known as a chop shop for media properties - there's not a single part of the former Gawker empire that's done even half-decently under their control. > In an email to G/O Media staff that was obtained by The New York Times, Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive, said the company was “undergoing an extensive review of our portfolio with the intention of co…
(that dude is parsley, sage, rosemary _and_ thyme)
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#55The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
They had amazingly high production values on classics like "Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA and "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ I wonder why they stopped.
I think they raised a bunch of funding at one point and then ran out of it
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#56The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
Ben Collins says they're bring back ONN https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3kqyj7u...
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.
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#57I'm old enough to remember when it was a physical paper you'd get for free in Harvard Square... wish I kept some of them.
I particularly enjoyed the old "Point/Counterpoints" such as:
https://www.theonion.com/u-s-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-dep...
https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-no...
https://www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god...
Also, shout out to the "Oh! Mumford" comic strip that was insane absurdist meme-fuel. Might have to go to Internet Archive to unsurface those.
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#59I'm old enough to remember when it was a physical paper you'd get for free in Harvard Square... wish I kept some of them. I particularly enjoyed the old "Point/Counterpoints" such as: https://www.theonion.com/u-s-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-dep... https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-no... https://www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god... Also, shout out to the "Oh! Mumford" comic s…
Red Meat still exists, but absolutely nobody knows what I mean when I say, "I hate you, Milkman Dan" and hasn't for 25 years.