Bitten by the Onion, Six Flags savors the notoriety

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Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder can be prickly about his own media coverage. But executives at Six Flags Inc., the theme park company Snyder now controls, couldn't be happier that their company was the recent target of a parody in the Onion. The fake news article that appeared in the irreverent satirical newspaper and on its popular Web site was headlined, "Pope Makes First Papal Visit to Six Flags."

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