“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.
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.
For a long time they were known for an eerily prescient fake Bush Inauguration speech
Well shit.
Sadly, the annotated version somebody else put together around the end of Bush’s term in office showing how (almost?) every item in the Onion version of the speech came to pass is no longer online.
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.
Or you became more conservative as you aged…
more conservativean asshole as you aged…ftfy
