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Perhaps The Onion should ask - who gets most promotion of this?

Well, we’re all talking about the onion. And I, personally, haven’t read onion content in a long, long while. So this kind of put them back on the radar for me.

But I could be one of only a few people who fell out of onion readership?

More likely is that they believe the next four years will provide them a lot of comedy fodder and they’re setting their pieces early. For them the election is likely to be pretty good for business.



>I, personally, haven’t read onion content in a long, long while

The onion was kind of dead for a while under various shitty owners, but was bought this year by Jeff Lawson of Twilio and is now being run by former NBC reporter Ben Collins. The new stuff since the acquisition has been a bit hit or miss, but at least they're trying again.


They have posted great news segment videos again


I miss the autistic reporter. That guy was my favorite.


They also restarted the print newspaper (I'm a subscriber)


So far I've gotten two of those, and each time I've thought the lead headline on the front page was super clunky. It always tries to fit in a joke by being twice as long as it should be.


While their stuff is brilliant at times, I don't actively seek it out because it leaves me pretty depressed and anxious. The parodies are almost indistinguishable from real events these days.


Alas, "Onion Now: Focus" https://youtu.be/Bex5LyzbbBE


Yep, that's my feeling everyday. I would have liked to have seen Patrick Warburton cast in that role, though. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaghIdSJKvQ


I even felt that way reading The Onion's article about this and then listening to Alex Jones' rant on Xitter. They sounded like they came from the same writer.


They have become the embodiment of Poe's Law (or the world is such a hellscape that Poe's Law is just taken for granted now?)




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