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It's weird people are defending Buzzfeed here. As a long time lurker, it seemed like the community here is for fact reporting and truth seeking. Buzzfeed has
by throwaway12112 8y ago
It's weird people are defending Buzzfeed here. As a long time lurker, it seemed like the community here is for fact reporting and truth seeking. Buzzfeed has had at least two major blow ups in the past year. Perhaps two of the biggest blunders in years. On top of that, they have constantly reported things without all the facts causing major damage to innocent people.
To all the people who keep saying 'Pulitzer prize'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke
Not using the above to discredit the award or all people who have the award. But as recently seen with Der Spiegel, an award doesn't automatically give you immunity from criticism nor does it prove credibility. There are some awards and tests in life demonstrate objective truth, journalism has neither.
- reaperducer 8y agoWhile I'm not happy to see people lose their jobs, I hope this and other recent events signal a waning of amateur "disruptive" journalism. I've been transitioning back to traditional media — physical newspapers, DVRing the evening news, NPR, etc... and only visiting online news sites and Facebook one day a week. I'm not sad that I'm not bombarded with a constant stream of clickbait stories and headlines that don't reflect the content of the article. Buzzfeed is the poster child for all that is wrong with "new media." If it goes the way of the newspapers it killed, I won't cry. I feel mentally healthier, less anxious, better informed, and I sleep better. YMWV, but I encourage people to try to do the same to see if it works out for them. If not, there's still plenty of web sites out there peddling "free" news in exchange for peace of mind.
- jammygit 8y agoI've wanted to switch to magazines for my news for a while now but haven't found a specific one that I love yet. Any recommendations?
- wj 8y agoI really like the Economist. It doesn't cover all of the news but does a good job providing analysis of what they do cover.
- michaelchisari 8y agoI like to combine The Economist and Jacobin for politics and economics. Foreign Affairs + Mother Jones is another combination. Same with The New Yorker + In These Times.
- neoncontrails 8y agoThe Atlantic has a reputation for thoughtful, prescient journalism -- often with a focus on technology, but more often its surprising intersections with the world at large. I think it's frequently regarded as artsy and literary, like a New Yorker with pictures, which is odd considering its most famous essay, "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (1942), is widely credited with laying the foundations of the Information Age.
- joejerryronnie 8y agoI wonder if Time will make a comeback with Benioff's purchase.
- simula67 8y agoAnother example of bad Pulitzer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty#The_Pulitzer_Prize_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty#The_Pulitzer_Pr... Walter Duranty was misreporting on Holodomor for the New York Times and still won a Pulitzer prize which has not been returned or revoked
- robotrout 8y agoMost people in the west have no idea the holodomor genocide of millions by the Bolsheviks (much of whose leadership and financing was from New York) ever occurred. His downplaying of it is doubtless partly responsible.
- zapzupnz 8y agoIt's even odder to see people make the defence "Well, BuzzFeed News isn't BuzzFeed, and people are silly to mistake them". No, people aren't silly to mistake them. They're part of the same company, they share a brand, it's perfectly natural that people would associate one with the other. If The New Yorker started a division called New Yorker Feed that did nothing but published stolen content from Twitter and reddit in such a way as to make teenagers neurotic about nothing and feel no self worth, nobody's going to say "Well, you shouldn't confuse The New Yorker Feed with The New Yorker, they're totally different", ditto any other respected publication house. By the same token, FOX News having one hour of thoughtful, unbiased, unopinionated news that represents the two mains sides of the American political spectrum thoughtfully, equally, and respectfully doesn't make up for the other 23 hours of a day. I don't care about BuzzFeed or BuzzFeed News one way or the other, but let's give the people who confuse the services a break.
- arduanika 8y agoOr to put it another way: if BuzzFeed News were the original company, and some outfit decided to call themselves BuzzFeed and pulled the kind of crap that BuzzFeed pulls, BFN would send the quickest cease and desist ever lawyered.
- bambu 8y agoWhat happened with Der Spiegel?
- repsilat 8y agoFrom the horse's mouth: http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/claas-relotius-reporter-forgery-scandal-a-1244755.html http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/claas-relotius-r... An investigative journalist was found to have fabricated large parts of his reportage over years of work for the paper.