• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So The Onion makes up the fictional company name Global Tetrahedron, a real company uses the name, and then later buys The Onion.

    It’s all coming together.

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          7 months ago

          — Dr. Ellie Sattler, ahem

          She’s a world-renowned paleobotanist. Just because she’s a woman (and fictitious) doesn’t make her any less-deserving of a citation.

          :P

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      7 months ago

      FTA:

      The Onion’s owner said on Thursday that the satirical news site has been sold to a new Chicago-based firm created by four digital media veterans who are fans of the publication.

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        7 months ago

        Apparently by super-fans of The Onion who wanted to save it when they saw it was for sale. And they have some great plans for it: fund it well, bring back ONN, keep the staff, and let them do whatever they want!

        Awesome.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah. This is great news I needed today.

          The Onion is an absolute gem, too. Everything about this makes me a little happy.

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            7 months ago

            Many people have commented, since they were bought out by their (now previous) ownership that they really needed to be owned by someone who both understood them, actually liked them, and could fund them, even through periods when they might not always be “extremely profitable”. Their (now past) ownership wasn’t the type to be so patient with periods of unprofitably or the controversy that the publication might expectedly generate.

            I’m pretty certain that its new owners will.