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BuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They've won many journalism awards as you can see on their Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News https:/

BuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They've won many journalism awards as you can see on their Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News I do agree that reusing the name must surely do their image significant harm.

mashby 7y ago
This is often repeated, but...Can you name a large news source that has not won a "journalism awards"?
- chaosite 7y ago
  Gawker?
- samb1729 7y ago
  I'm not attempting to establish credibility for BuzzFeed News beyond the statement of fact I made the my first comment. BuzzFeed itself doesn't win journalism awards, regardless of how you useful a signal you consider those, because their listicle stuff isn't journalism. I have no interest in debating the nature of BuzzFeed News's journalism beyond making this distinction clear.
- ilikehurdles 7y ago
  Fox News has zero Peabody Awards. I can't find anything on Yahoo News, Facebook, or Twitter winning pulitzers. Breitbart has zero pulitzer awards.
- Whatarethese 7y ago
  What a generic comment with no research behind it.
protonimitate 7y ago
Sure, but this article is hardly news. It's hardly even worthy of a tweet. The "old internet" is MySpace and Friendster? Really? "Click share if you think Google and Facebook are bad" pretty much summarizes the contents of the article.
- samb1729 7y ago
  See my response to the sibling comment from mashby.
thieving_magpie 7y ago
It's funny you'd link that wiki page in support of Buzzfeed News being reputable and separate from Buzzfeed. 1st sentence: BuzzFeed News is an American news website published by BuzzFeed. 2nd sentence: It has published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Trump–Russia dossier, for which it was heavily criticized
dfee 7y ago
From the Wikipedia page you linked: > The media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 Buzzfeed stories about Barack Obama in 2016 (most from Buzzfeed News, but also from the general BuzzFeed site), 65 were positive, 35 were neutral, and one was critical. The report called Buzzfeed's coverage of Obama "creepy" and "almost uniformly uncritical and often sycophantic". I do wonder how BuzzFeed(News) rises the HN ladder though. The only benefit I see to having content like this here is to display what opinions some demographic of people consume and believe.
downerending 7y ago
Interesting--had no idea. They really need to change their name. Does seem a bit ironic that BuzzFeed would be complaining about the death of the Internet.
will4274 7y ago
> many More like several, and no high-prestige awards. They've also published several incorrect stories and hold the dubious honor of being the only publication Robert Mueller called out for publishing incorrect information as fact while he was still investigating. The point is, they are Bloomberg / Politico / Huffington Post tier, not WaPo / NYT / WSJ / BBC tier or even The Atlantic / CNN / Fox / MSNBC tier.
elfexec 7y ago
The name certainly doesn't help, but neither does their penchant for bias, agenda and lies. Also, "journalism awards" are as impressive as participation trophies. Pretty much X amount of awards are alotted to X number of news/broadcast companies with the "right attitude" anyways.

mashby 7y ago

This is often repeated, but...Can you name a large news source that has not won a "journalism awards"?

chaosite 7y ago
Gawker?
samb1729 7y ago
I'm not attempting to establish credibility for BuzzFeed News beyond the statement of fact I made the my first comment. BuzzFeed itself doesn't win journalism awards, regardless of how you useful a signal you consider those, because their listicle stuff isn't journalism. I have no interest in debating the nature of BuzzFeed News's journalism beyond making this distinction clear.
ilikehurdles 7y ago
Fox News has zero Peabody Awards. I can't find anything on Yahoo News, Facebook, or Twitter winning pulitzers. Breitbart has zero pulitzer awards.
Whatarethese 7y ago
What a generic comment with no research behind it.

protonimitate 7y ago

Sure, but this article is hardly news. It's hardly even worthy of a tweet. The "old internet" is MySpace and Friendster? Really? "Click share if you think Google and Facebook are bad" pretty much summarizes the contents of the article.

samb1729 7y ago
See my response to the sibling comment from mashby.

thieving_magpie 7y ago

It's funny you'd link that wiki page in support of Buzzfeed News being reputable and separate from Buzzfeed. 1st sentence: BuzzFeed News is an American news website published by BuzzFeed. 2nd sentence: It has published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Trump–Russia dossier, for which it was heavily criticized

dfee 7y ago

From the Wikipedia page you linked: > The media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 Buzzfeed stories about Barack Obama in 2016 (most from Buzzfeed News, but also from the general BuzzFeed site), 65 were positive, 35 were neutral, and one was critical. The report called Buzzfeed's coverage of Obama "creepy" and "almost uniformly uncritical and often sycophantic". I do wonder how BuzzFeed(News) rises the HN ladder though. The only benefit I see to having content like this here is to display what opinions some demographic of people consume and believe.

downerending 7y ago

Interesting--had no idea. They really need to change their name. Does seem a bit ironic that BuzzFeed would be complaining about the death of the Internet.

will4274 7y ago

> many More like several, and no high-prestige awards. They've also published several incorrect stories and hold the dubious honor of being the only publication Robert Mueller called out for publishing incorrect information as fact while he was still investigating. The point is, they are Bloomberg / Politico / Huffington Post tier, not WaPo / NYT / WSJ / BBC tier or even The Atlantic / CNN / Fox / MSNBC tier.

elfexec 7y ago

The name certainly doesn't help, but neither does their penchant for bias, agenda and lies. Also, "journalism awards" are as impressive as participation trophies. Pretty much X amount of awards are alotted to X number of news/broadcast companies with the "right attitude" anyways.