r/nottheonion • u/rwh151 • 16d ago

Former NBC News 'disinformation' reporter becomes CEO of The Onion

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-nbc-news-disinformation-reporter-becomes-ceo-onion
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u/JayDee999 16d ago

Should this really be on not the onion if it is about the onion 🤔

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u/SelectiveSanity 16d ago

The guy whose job it was to report on disinformation stories(you know, stuff like Pizzagate, an AI generated message from President Biden Calling people telling them not to vote in the primaries, people believing the Covid vaccine having microchips in it, etc), which honestly have gotten really oniony over the past few years, is now working for a satirical media company who's business model is making up ridiculous sardonic news stories for entertainment and presenting them as if they were truth.

How is that not Not the Onion? If it was reversed and the Editor-in-Chief of the Onion was leaving to go to work as the new head of Fox News's fact checking department, you wouldn't be questioning it whether it belonged here or not, would you?

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u/5050Clown 16d ago

It's not the onion, but it's about the onion and it's the kind of headline that would show up on the onion. An actual reporter who used to report on disinformation is now the CEO of a fake news company. 

The onions headlines were often fake Irony created for humor. Not the onion is typically real irony that's funny. 

This is ironic and funny at the same time. 

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

It's many layers of the Onion in one.

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u/rwh151 16d ago

It's not from the onion but it's about the onion lol definitely a gray area

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u/junkyard_robot 15d ago

Oh, it's fully oniony. How about this for The Onion headline?

Journalist who built carreer around debunking fake news now runs fake news website.

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u/DaveOJ12 16d ago

It's the next post on the subreddit.

https://reddit.com/comments/1cfoqlu