'The Onion' About to Get Peeled From G/O Media

G/O Media, the struggling company that recently sold Deadspin, is shopping popular humor site The Onion and continued its fire sale by dumping two other sites Tuesday The Post has learned.

Jim Spanfeller, G/O Media’s CEO, told stunned staffers at entertainment site The A.V. Club and food-centric site The Takeout, that the publications were sold, a source with knowledge told The Post. ...

G/O also is said to be in talks with a few suitors for The Onion, but it could not be immediately learned how far along they were in the process.

Ed Morrissey

It's been a very long time since The Onion has caught my attention, and I used to read it occasionally before its Gizmodo acquisition. The countercultural cachet in comedy is on the Right now, and the Babylon Bee is far more trenchant in its satire. That's probably why G/O is giving up on it now.

I do hope that the next owners of The Onion get a chance to make the necessary course changes to restore it to its former glory. We'll see if anyone wants to invest the time and capital to make that happen.

'The Onion' About to Get Peeled From G/O Media

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