Madison Capital Times
After
Huffington Post and
others reported that Viacom was close to buying the Onion, execs at the humor paper posted a memo on their intranet with the headline: "Factual Error Found on Internet." The memo says the "bastions of journalism" reporting on an Onion deal with Viacom are not true: "Please treat these rumors as just that, rumors." Onion CEO
Steve Hannah tells
Doug Moe that no one at the Onion has been in negotiations with Viacom.
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The Onion has been in talks with Viacom, says NYP's Arango (NY Post)
