Easily the most in-depth interview I’ve seen about the new Onion and its direction. A couple of quotes that stuck out:

“[T]he staff knows their role. They know what to do. And again, if you come at it from an ethos, it changes things, right? Your job is to challenge power in any real way and also just make jokes about everybody.”

Good to see! The Onion has been rather tough on Kamala as hapless VP. I’d like to see a different but equally tough angle should she win. Obama is the rare president who skated by (save for his handling of Syria).

“And there are other websites, too, that do satire that I find fundamentally unfunny, but they’re allowed to do whatever they want to do. That’s not disinformation. That’s a whole different thing. Disinformation is a cottage industry that is, by the way, only in existence because of the business model that we’re moving away from.”

This is clearly a reference to the Babylon Bee, but I like the distinction between satire and non-satire. If I were The Onion, I wouldn’t give competitors (the Bee and more hyperlocal parody sites) too much thought — and I’d tell those sites the same. Be funny, find your angle of attack, and have fun.