Ex-NBC Dis­in­for­ma­tion Reporter Is The New CEO Of The Onion

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No, that head­line is not satire. Ex-NBC dis­in­for­ma­tion reporter Ben Collins announced on his Twit­ter account on Thurs­day that he is the new CEO of The Onion. It’s a fit­ting end for both par­ties as they tail­spin into the depths of bit­ter pol­i­tics.
Before he was sus­pend­ed by NBC for hav­ing an unpro­fes­sion­al obses­sion with Elon Musk, he was on the network’s dis­in­for­ma­tion and extrem­ism beat, which was exclu­sive­ly focused on the right side of the polit­i­cal spec­trum. Collins’s shtick was to find the most out­ra­geous things com­ing from the inter­net and pre­tend that they rep­re­sent­ed all con­ser­v­a­tives. For e …