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In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN (Satire)
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| 1/25/2020
Posted on 01/25/2020 12:10:16 PM PST by Old Man From WV
U.S.The Babylon Bee has been the world's best satire site for thousands of years, spawning dozens of secular knock-offs that just aren't quite as good.
The site announced a new acquisition this week, one that immediately made the site the largest satirical site on the planet: a purchase of competing satire site CNN for $12 billion. The move more than quadrupled the site's catalog of hilarious, satirical articles.
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"We've long admired CNN's ability to parody leftist media organizations so effortlessly, and we're thrilled to have them under The Babylon Bee's umbrella," said site CEO Seth Dillon. "When you can't compete with hilarious satire like CNN, you obviously look for ways to get them on your team, and an acquisition seemed to make the most sense." The new conglomerate organization will be called BNN. CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they're doing. "We don't want them to change anything since you don't try to fix satirical content that's already incredible," Dillon said. "They'll just keep churning out incredibly skewed content in order to satirize the leftist media's inability to report anything without bias or prejudice." Brian Stelter will produce satirical videos for The Babylon Bee, moving the site into the realm of video content for the first time. Again, though, his show's content will remain unchanged. CNN will also benefit, as their content will now be clearly labeled satire, protecting them from getting sued to high heaven for their skewed coverage. Site founder Adam Ford was against the move, but nobody listens to him anymore.
Personally, I think they over paid. They should have had Donald Trump negotiate the deal.
To: Old Man From WV
These guys are really good!
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:12:21 PM PST
by
falcon99
(qu)
To: Old Man From WV
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:14:04 PM PST
by
Drango
(1776 = 2020)
To: Old Man From WV
I don’t always find the Bee funny..but this one was very funny!
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:15:33 PM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: Old Man From WV
Please refrain from abusing the news forum and activism sidebar with Satire.
To: Old Man From WV
Waiting for CNN to get Snopes to debunk this in 3, 2, 1....
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:21:53 PM PST
by
beef
(Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
To: falcon99
These guys are really good! And really effective at countering leftist opinion.
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:22:12 PM PST
by
Sparticus
(Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: Old Man From WV
Can we get these guys on every monitor in an airport 24/7?
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:23:59 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: Old Man From WV
Personally, I always thought The Babylon Bee had more accurate content. At least they’ve never pretended to be a serious news outlet.
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:26:08 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
To: Old Man From WV
Would have been a better article if the price had been stated as $120,000.
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:27:59 PM PST
by
Real Cynic No More
(Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
To: Old Man From WV
I didn’t know that CNN was for sale.
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:32:02 PM PST
by
Sasparilla
( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
To: Old Man From WV
When the Bee first started out I was not impressed.
The snark was there but to be good satire has to contain elements of truth and I just was not seeing it.
They have gotten much better.
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:32:41 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
To: Old Man From WV
CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they’re doing.
Hah — love it!
To: Admin Moderator
The Admin Moderator is like the high school librarian who always came by to break up the group if we were having a little too much fun.
"Yes, Miss Crabistar"
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posted on
01/25/2020 12:44:32 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: falcon99
At some point within the past year, Babylon Bee surpassed The Onion as the best satire.
Are these the same people?
To: dp0622
I agree they are hit or miss but when they hit they hit like a ton of bricks. :)
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posted on
01/25/2020 1:28:14 PM PST
by
xp38
To: falcon99
Expect CNN to whine and complain about this article. Seriously, they do not find Babylon Bee funny. No sense of humor.
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posted on
01/25/2020 1:37:45 PM PST
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dhs12345
To: Admin Moderator
But doesn’t the name of the combined company, BNN, belong as Breaking News. CNN could be renamed BWN, that might be more apt given what they sound like.
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posted on
01/25/2020 1:40:12 PM PST
by
freeandfreezing
(Do I need the sarcasm tag?)
To: Old Man From WV
Can’t wait for Snopes to fact-check this...
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posted on
01/25/2020 2:00:11 PM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
To: xp38
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01/25/2020 2:05:21 PM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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