Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families
With support from families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the satirical news publication The Onion has sold Alex Jones' “Infowars'' at a bankruptcy auction. Jones owes more than $1 billion from a libel judgment that claims the massacre was a hoax, his family announced. Thursday. Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emily was […]
The Onion jokes about death of heroic father slain by assassin at Trump rally: ‘Pure evil’
The Onion, a liberal satirical magazine based in Chicago, was recently purchased by a longtime Democratic supporter. donor Co-founder of Twilio Jeff Lawsonslumped to a new low on Tuesday in a desperate bid to score points against President Donald Trump. The satirical magazine used the death of Corey Comperatore, a heroic former firefighter who died […]
Far-Left Satire Site ‘The Onion’ Part of Parent Company Fire Sale
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 […]
Former Deadspin owner G/O Media puts The Onion up for sale: source
G/O Media, the struggling company that recently sold Deadspin, has acquired the popular humor site The Onion and continued its fire sale by dumping two other sites on Tuesday, the Post reported. Ta. According to a memo obtained by the Post, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller told staffers at entertainment site AV Club and food-focused […]
Charles Michael Calvert claims he acted in self-defense after onion chopping fight
An Indiana murder suspect told police he stabbed his girlfriend to death after he “attacked her with a knife” because he cut an onion the wrong way. Charles Michael Calvert, 60, called 911 late Saturday from his home in Grabill and told him Marcia Lynskey was “no longer with us,” according to court documents. “We […]