Former Onion Staffers Denounce CEO's Apology

BuzzFeed writes, Editorial freedom and the c-word. Former Onion staffers Monday reacted with dismay to the satirical newspaper's apology for calling a 9-year old a "cunt," saying the apology marked a loss of editorial freedom. "‪It shows they don't have faith in the writers, or in their public. ‬It looks worse that they took [the tweet] down," one former Onion editor, Joe Garden, told BuzzFeed. Onion CEO Steve Hannah, who recently oversaw the paper's relocation to Chicago and the departure of much of its core staff, released a statement Monday offering "my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the…

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