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Modern "journalism" is mostly copy pasting content from Reddit. BuzzFeed turns AskReddits into listicles, higher quality publications turn Reddit posts into lon
by umeshunni 9y ago
Modern "journalism" is mostly copy pasting content from Reddit. BuzzFeed turns AskReddits into listicles, higher quality publications turn Reddit posts into long form content.
- pulisse 9y agoBuzzFeed's journalism and BuzzFeed's listicle content are entirely different things.
- jcwayne 9y agoThat's a step up from the 2 sentences plus 20 tweets approach.
- mseebach 9y agoHmm, not obviously, IMO. At least the "OMG You will NEVER believe what random insignificant strangers said on Twitter about some shitstorm that we're doing all we can to whip up that an editor would never have allowed anywhere near a vaguely respectable publication except as a "quote" " has correct attribution and doesn't masquerade as actual journalism.
- cat199 9y agoyou forgot the down-spinning of corporate and government press releases to make them seem like legitimate reportage..
- peteretep 9y agoI was bitching in another thread about IBM Watson and had a Reuters journalist email my HN-only address who said he was working on a story about it.
- falsedan 9y ago> Reuters journalist They're 99.9% freelancers.