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I have a love hate relationship with Zerohedge. On the one hand, they can produce some really amazing and compelling content, whether its their own analysis or
by snake_plissken 10y ago
I have a love hate relationship with Zerohedge.
On the one hand, they can produce some really amazing and compelling content, whether its their own analysis or an analysis of an article from somewhere else on the web. A recent article of memory: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-17/what-just-happened-oil http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-17/what-just-happened-....
But over the years the site's tone has changed. While they are still dedicated to financial news and insights, they post a lot of survivalist non-sense and it feels more like a far Right wing blog now, advocating you to buy gold in one article that sits below another highlighting proof that the gold market is fixed. I can support a position of reporting on everything and anything, but these inconsistencies and the fact that there is a dearth of articles with viewpoints and analysis from the Left has led me to question their true motives now. They'll also censor you for trying to bring this up in their comments section. A few years ago my account was banned after I called them out for putting up an article stating how some Goldman report was BS, while simultaneously they had up a blog post that used stats from a different Goldman report.
I still visit the site everyday. They still occasionally break some headline stories and you still find some really great articles. But generally it's become an insufferable website.
- tomp 10y agoThat aritcle actually has an interesting follow up. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-21/something-blowing-oil http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-21/something-blowing-o... Basically... they were right! (You can cite this as an example of quality reporting or as an example of cherry-picking research...)