Peeling away
The Onion is moving its editorial offices from Chicago to New York. As they peel away for another city, much of the editorial staff is staying behind, and they’ve been in skirmishes with ownership about benefits, going so far as to try to find a new buyer. That’s all according to this piece in The Atlantic. I love the sharp-witted satire of The Onion — it’s one of the few sites I consistently repost on my Facebook page. I hope this move and change in staff doesn’t leave a lot of Onion fans crying.
March 23rd, 2012 at 12:14 pm
What WOULD be more than vaguely amusing, is if standard journalism is fading away as we know it…only to be replaced by new papers springing up all over the country publishing REALLY GOOD snarky fake news … and making no bones about it (unlike Mr Daisey). The Onion people in Chicago could just as easily rise up, walk off the job and open their own new rag…leaving the ‘off-to-New York” crowd holding the bag. An apt name for the new publication could be Rosebud.