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A fine article and then you get to the last sentence of the fifth paragraph and you can't help but to ask was that necessary?
by jumbopapa 8y ago
A fine article and then you get to the last sentence of the fifth paragraph and you can't help but to ask was that necessary?
- HillaryBriss 8y agoTo the author's point, I suppose one can make a strong case that too many podcasts are merely low or zero-information commentary. But, yeah, why the author decided to relate that statement to race, I can only guess. What did that add, journalistically, to the overall piece, which wasn't really about race?
- dajohnson89 8y agoPerhaps, as the Internet diversifies, the podcast scene hasn't diversified accordingly. It was definitely a jarring sentence, but the observation is not inaccurate and worth considering.
- eriken 8y agoHe also embedded this tweet: "The BuzzFeed "pivot" away from podcasts makes sense when you remember that BuzzFeed lives and dies as a business on detailed analytics. Web content has them. Video has them. Podcasts still don't." In my opionion this is exactly what BuzzFeed lacks and what a lot of podcasts allow.
- jl2718 8y agoIt’s not possible that the author’s assertion is based on any observation. It is a pure exposure of prejudicial assumption, and for me personally, wholly false.