Transcript: A New Owner For 'The Onion'?

ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
07-22-2009
A New Owner For 'The Onion'?

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

America's finest news source has been bought. If you don't think the satirical paper The Onion is America's finest news source, just look at the front page it says so every day. Although, today it says: America's Finest News Source and Salvage Fishery.

The paper was sold to a conglomerate based in Sichuan Province, China, the Yu Wan Mei Corporation, Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Corp. Joe Randazzo is the editor of The Onion, and he joins us. How did this happen?

Mr. JOE RANDAZZO (Editor, The Onion): Ni hao, Robert. ...

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