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Nearly eight years after leaving CNN, the network that made her famous, Ms. Battista has resurfaced in the news game as an anchor for Onion News Network, the online video arm of The Onion, the satirical newspaper.


The topics Ms. Battista has tackled in her Onion spots are Despondex, a drug for those who are too happy — “a huge step forward in the battle against exuberance,” she deadpans into the camera; Franz Kafka International Airport ranking last in customer satisfaction (the average delay is 31 hours longer than the next worse airport); and the discovery of the fossilized remains of the sexually predatory dinosaur (“a pervatasaurus”)

She also considered her (low) opinion of the state of cable news today and saw that the space between real and fake news was shrinking.

“You watch the news today, and you don’t know what is real,”