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Am I the only one alarmed that buzzfeed is being considered a reputable news source? The content teeters between tabloid and comedy.
by Nickersf 11y ago
Am I the only one alarmed that buzzfeed is being considered a reputable news source? The content teeters between tabloid and comedy.
- apozem 11y agoTake a look: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bigstories http://www.buzzfeed.com/bigstories
- zem 11y agothey do the fluffy content to support the reputable content. having that as an explicit business model has actually helped them structure and retain the dividing line very nicely, as opposed to newspapers who have tried to make their content more and more clickbaity in order to vie for readers' attention, but have not formulated an explicit two-bin policy for themselves.