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conulyFree Onions (for a Buck)
Q. On several occasions riding the Times Square-to-Grand Central shuttle, I have encountered panhandlers holding a stack of The Onion, the satirical weekly that offers free copies from many Manhattan news boxes. The street people were selling them to riders for a dollar. One man said The Onion gave him the papers to sell. Is that true, or are they just taking them? How does The Onion feel about this?
A. Joe Randazzo, editor of The Onion, replied to our query, Onion-style: “While The Onion is entirely unsympathetic to the problem of homelessness in America, we are all too happy to exploit the miserable condition of our city’s derelict for the express purpose of disseminating our newspapers. May the paltry wage they’re able to swindle from New York’s guilt-ridden bourgeoisie keep them adequately soused until the morrow!” Asked if he would care to rephrase any of that, Mr. Randazzo added: “We don’t have any deal with the city’s homeless to sell our paper, which is distributed free throughout New York (as well as Chicago, Boulder, Madison, and Milwaukee). Thus far, though, the practice hasn’t interfered with the Onion’s heartless corporate agenda or its inconceivably massive business dealings.”
From the NYTimes FYI column, of course.
Q. On several occasions riding the Times Square-to-Grand Central shuttle, I have encountered panhandlers holding a stack of The Onion, the satirical weekly that offers free copies from many Manhattan news boxes. The street people were selling them to riders for a dollar. One man said The Onion gave him the papers to sell. Is that true, or are they just taking them? How does The Onion feel about this?
A. Joe Randazzo, editor of The Onion, replied to our query, Onion-style: “While The Onion is entirely unsympathetic to the problem of homelessness in America, we are all too happy to exploit the miserable condition of our city’s derelict for the express purpose of disseminating our newspapers. May the paltry wage they’re able to swindle from New York’s guilt-ridden bourgeoisie keep them adequately soused until the morrow!” Asked if he would care to rephrase any of that, Mr. Randazzo added: “We don’t have any deal with the city’s homeless to sell our paper, which is distributed free throughout New York (as well as Chicago, Boulder, Madison, and Milwaukee). Thus far, though, the practice hasn’t interfered with the Onion’s heartless corporate agenda or its inconceivably massive business dealings.”
From the NYTimes FYI column, of course.
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Date: 2009-11-15 05:42 pm (UTC)