The Onion, a once-funny far-left satire site, is now part of a fire sale run by its parent company, G/O Media.
G/O Media had already unloaded sports sites Deadspin and feminist Jezebel. On Tuesday, the beleaguered and shrinking G/O announced it had sold left-wing entertainment site The AV Club and food site The Takeout.
of new york post report The Onion was thrown into this fire sale by G/O Media.
“G/O is also said to be in talks with several suitors for The Onion.” post report“But it wasn’t immediately clear how far along they were in the process.”
The satirical site was launched in 1988 by two University of Wisconsin juniors and gained a cult following with headlines like “Holy S—!” “Humans will walk on the moon”, “Study reveals: Babies are stupid”, “Archaeological dig reveals ancient skeletal race”.
The site changed hands over the years and became part of former Gawker publisher Nick Denton’s Gizmodo empire, but in 2019 private equity firm Great Hill Partners bought it for an undisclosed amount. They bought Gizmodo and changed the name to G/O.
For the first time, well, for the first time, I watched The Onion’s. home page And he never laughed. Here are his five recent headlines:
- The worst side effects Ozempic users don’t want you to know about.
- The lint roller passes through the crotch in advance
- President Trump’s civil fraud bail reduced to $175 million
- Kate Middleton reveals cancer diagnosis
- Kamala Harris joins DC coworking space
Compare the headline on The Onion to the headline on another satirical site, a real satirical site. Babylon Bee:
- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg holds emergency press conference and announces an additional three months of maternity leave
- New York City Mayor Assures Immigrants He Will Directly Rob Americans If Their Prepaid Debit Cards Run Out
- The public is starting to wonder if Diddy did some of the things he repeatedly said in his raps
- Donald Trump squats in Trump Tower, forcing new landlord AG James into multi-year eviction battle
- Ketanji says he can’t define free speech because he’s not a founding father
All I know is that no one is trying to sell Babylon Bee.
Did Onion learn nothing? national lampoon? That link is not broken. national lampoon No more.
You have to be a really strict person not to find humor in these hypersensitive times. There is so much material out there, but now that the left has taken control of politics, media, big business, academia, and entertainment, satirists are choosing to be good dogs and palace guards.
Well, from the looks of it, they’re about to become unemployed good dogs and palace guards.
They had the greatest job in the world of mocking power, and they blew it.
I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said, “Losing your sense of humor is the first sign of being infected with a walk.”
Maybe it was Tupac.
