In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN (Satire)

babylon Bee ^ | 1/25/2020

[Old Man From WV]

U.S.—The Babylon Bee has been the world's best satire site for thousands of years, spawning dozens of secular knock-offs that just aren't quite as good.

The site announced a new acquisition this week, one that immediately made the site the largest satirical site on the planet: a purchase of competing satire site CNN for $12 billion. The move more than quadrupled the site's catalog of hilarious, satirical articles.

[Old Man From WV]

"We've long admired CNN's ability to parody leftist media organizations so effortlessly, and we're thrilled to have them under The Babylon Bee's umbrella," said site CEO Seth Dillon. "When you can't compete with hilarious satire like CNN, you obviously look for ways to get them on your team, and an acquisition seemed to make the most sense." The new conglomerate organization will be called BNN. CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they're doing. "We don't want them to change anything since you don't try to fix satirical content that's already incredible," Dillon said. "They'll just keep churning out incredibly skewed content in order to satirize the leftist media's inability to report anything without bias or prejudice." Brian Stelter will produce satirical videos for The Babylon Bee, moving the site into the realm of video content for the first time. Again, though, his show's content will remain unchanged. CNN will also benefit, as their content will now be clearly labeled satire, protecting them from getting sued to high heaven for their skewed coverage. Site founder Adam Ford was against the move, but nobody listens to him anymore.

Personally, I think they over paid. They should have had Donald Trump negotiate the deal.

[falcon99]

These guys are really good!

[Drango]

Snark lords!

[dp0622]

I don’t always find the Bee funny..but this one was very funny!

[Admin Moderator]

Please refrain from abusing the news forum and activism sidebar with Satire.

[beef]

Waiting for CNN to get Snopes to debunk this in 3, 2, 1....

[Sparticus]

These guys are really good!

And really effective at countering leftist opinion.

[2banana]

Can we get these guys on every monitor in an airport 24/7?

[Viking2002]

Personally, I always thought The Babylon Bee had more accurate content. At least they’ve never pretended to be a serious news outlet.

[Real Cynic No More]

Would have been a better article if the price had been stated as $120,000.

[Sasparilla]

I didn’t know that CNN was for sale.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When the Bee first started out I was not impressed.

The snark was there but to be good satire has to contain elements of truth and I just was not seeing it.

They have gotten much better.

[Yardstick]

CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they’re doing.

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Hah — love it!

[fhayek]

The Admin Moderator is like the high school librarian who always came by to break up the group if we were having a little too much fun.

"Yes, Miss Crabistar"

[SamAdams76]

At some point within the past year, Babylon Bee surpassed The Onion as the best satire.

Are these the same people?

[xp38]

I agree they are hit or miss but when they hit they hit like a ton of bricks. :)

[dhs12345]

Expect CNN to whine and complain about this article. Seriously, they do not find Babylon Bee funny. No sense of humor.

[freeandfreezing]

But doesn’t the name of the combined company, BNN, belong as Breaking News. CNN could be renamed BWN, that might be more apt given what they sound like.

[OrangeHoof]

Can’t wait for Snopes to fact-check this...

[dp0622]

yes they do! :)