[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Perhaps the author is using the word 'ironic' in an ironic way."

Journalism majors from journalism schools teaching journalism? And yet all the OAN site does is send one to article after article.

Being curious, Brooke Mallory seems to have written a bunch if articles for OAN. Doing a serach for a reusme or bio --- https://www.oann.com/?s=brooke++mallory+bio -- only returns to her articles. Isn't that ironic?

[one guy in new jersey]

Usually they fall back on the word “interesting”. So actually using the word ironic is much farther toward the truth than these dissemblers are usually willing to go.

[Steely Tom]

It's like describing Robert Hanssen spying for the Soviet Union — while working in the FBI Counterintelligence program — as "ironic."