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Former 'Onion' Editor On Why We Need Satire

By Joe Randazzo / NPR
Published January 9, 2015 at 10:49 AM PST
This story was published more than 10 years ago.

Former Onion editor Joe Randazzo reacts to the attack of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this week.

A version of this essay originally appeared on MSNBC.com.

Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

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