This is a splash of cold water if you're familiar with who Ben Collins is.
This will not not be a return to The Onion you fondly remember. Most likely it will be a continuation in the same direction it's been going.
This will not not be a return to The Onion you fondly remember. Most likely it will be a continuation in the same direction it's been going.
I don’t know who Ben Collins is and at a first read of his bio I’m not really sure who would. My first instinct is that this is one of those terminally online things, like how I kept reading references to “Taylor Lorenz” as if she were the devil incarnate and when I finally looked into it she was just another pretty boring journalist.
The Onion's comedic point-of-view used to be less predictable, but as the culture war as progressed, so too has The Onion's voice, and it's a more reliable voice for the left these days. If you rue that trend, for whatever reason, Collins provides little reason to imagine things will change.
Also if you think being partisan is the lowest bar instead of “report the truth” or “be accurate and fair” then that tells me enough already about your values.