Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> "*Small American newspapers [that] frequently fabricate offbeat news to
> trick people into noticing them with the aim of making money*."
>
The rub is that this actually is true of the Onion, depending on the breadth of the word "trick." Is it not?
^^^^^ CB: And it is actually true with respect to lots (all ?) of sensationalizing newspapers and scandal sheets in the US.
FYI, vulgar materialist analysis of capitalist corporations, including media and art corporations, is true more of the time than fancy materialist analysis.