'The Onion' CEO on That Brutal 'New York Times' Op-Ed: 'Expect Us in Weird Places' — Rolling Stone

Sullivan and Weiss weren’t merely the victims of some ethereal struggle between the forces of free speech and ideological censorship: they were the collateral damage of shifting media business models. And there will be lots more of them before this drama finishes.

“The screen experience is so reductionist,” Casimiro said. “It just flattens the world, so that a Pulitzer Prize-winning story feels the same as spam. Some things deserve better.”

At the time, Heidecker wasn’t influenced by comedy at all (he didn’t watch SNL or pay attention to traditional stand-up), but by the “weird awkwardness” of artists like David Byrne and the Talking Heads. “In that first video we did, Eric was editing it, and there was a jump cut where he had taped over this girl ice-skating. So it jumped and went to... See more