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Is that sarcasm? Really?

• Trill-I-Am 10y ago
  Were you unaware that buzzfeed produced feature longform journalism?
• azernik 10y ago
  Really. https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-an-investigative-team-from-the-ground-up/396656/ https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-an-investiga... Of course, that includes some irresponsible journalism too. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/314042-buzzfeeds-report-just-made-life-harder-for-journalists http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/314042-buzzfeeds...
• MarkMc 10y ago
  I was as surprised as you. Here's an example of a quality BuzzFeed article: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-trump-around-the-world https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-tru...
• untog 10y ago
  Yes, Buzzfeed has a well staffed news operation that has covered some huge stories. In fact, Buzzfeed seems like one of the few news operations with a business plan: clickbait and "sponsored content" successfully subsidising actual news output. The problem comes either when a news story conflicts with an advertiser's promoted content, or when shareholders start insisting on better returns and look at the news operation as a liability.
• bigbugbag 10y ago
  No. buzzfeed has actually broken out a few real investigate journalism stories and news coverage. I don't know what the business model is, I suppose they use some of the money they make from the crap they do to pay third parties for good content that has a high potential of buzzing the feed. But this is buzzfeed so I won't go there ever for any reason, and certainly not for the handful of stories that may interest me.