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Yesterday, Page Six penned a peppy item about The Onion surviving death-by-lawsuit after it ran a certain headline ("Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson"). But what of the revenues at what Page Six terms a "thriving business"? A brief history of The Onion's on-the-record fortunes:

Page Six, April 2005: "The Onion survived the threat and is now a thriving business making $7 million a year"
Chicago Tribune, August 2004: "This year, holding company Onion Inc. says The Onion newspaper, Web site, book publishing, The Onion Radio Network and merchandise sales will generate about $7 million in revenue."
Business 2.0, September 2003: "Thanks to a management philosophy that owes more to its cheapskate alt-weekly roots than to go-go dotcom thinking, the Onion in all its forms now generates $7 million a year in revenue, and a small profit."

So who's locked in the past The Onion's income statement, or Lexis-wielding journalists? We're so totally praying it's the latter.
Onion Survives [Page Six]