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Before the negative comments for Buzzfeed come in, please check out their investigations: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations https://www.buzzfeednews.c

Before the negative comments for Buzzfeed come in, please check out their investigations: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations These are hard-hitting, actual journalist investigations that is absolutely on a different level than their regular content on the main site. It seems the ad revenue from the Bad Buzzfeed funds their investigative journalism. Edit: Yes, even BuzzfeedNews.com is sort of bad - it's a mix. Below article linked from throwaway894345 is an example of a bad one but a lot of the articles on the main page seem to be legitimate news (if not as detailed as their investigations unit).

JohnWhigham 5y ago
And when ad revenue dries up, the first thing to be shuttered will be that.
- sodality2 5y ago
  Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate but I've got mixed feelings as clearly the model is not terrible, and they're still funding investigative journalism.
throwaway894345 5y ago
I remember Buzzfeed News stoking up drama whenever they could, but maybe they’ve turned a corner since I stopped paying them attention. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/first-they-came-for-our-venti-frappuccinos https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/first-they-ca... > PEOPLE ARE MAD. FURIOUS.
- sodality2 5y ago
  Yeah, if an article has single sentences of bold text between tweets or images, it's a Bad Buzzfeed article. That's definitely a prime example of crappy journalism. There's so many reasons why it's not good but when you realize it's marketed to 14-26 year olds, it makes a bit more sense.
1123581321 5y ago
Both sides of Buzzfeed deserve criticism.
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6f4f06c00484d34 5y ago
>some of buzzfeed is alright well, I'm sure that some of dailymail, rt, breitbart, etc, is alright too. does it matter? whatever that particular branch of that outlet is doing, it is owned by the same vile individuals as the rest of that conglomerate that sows division and discord for profit. buzzfeed and its likes on both ends of the horseshoe deserve all the hate they get and more.
- paul7986 5y ago
  They were the first to pump out and up that Clinton paid for Steele Dossier / the dumb trump Pee pee tape thing. YEt they even noted it was not verified yet all left outlets picked it up and acted like it was nonfiction. Anyone who believes that stuff (Hilary clinton pizza parlor pedo ring .. lmao to Hunter Biden narrative the right pushed lol) needs a life outside of for profit reality TV oops i mean for profit manipulated, biased media. There's zero objectivity with that garbage! Think CNN might be trying to change it's course possibly with the firing of Coumo whose brother was probably forced out due to politics (Trump had it out for him). Not that I'd ever watch or read CNN or any of them again.
  - ameliaquining 5y ago
    The Steele dossier was being circulated among officials in Washington and they were taking it into account when dealing with things like law enforcement investigations into Trump. That, in and of itself, makes it newsworthy and creates a public interest in knowing what's in it, regardless of whether its claims are true or not.
    - paul7986 5y ago
      all of it's claims are true? Did HIlary Clinton not fund it? No left or right bias here ... only objectivity! Hbu?
    - pessimizer 5y ago
      Every news outlet excepting Buzzfeed disagreed with your philosophy of newsworthiness, and it led to years of political catastrophe and public opinion of journalism reaching its nadir.
sofard 5y ago
Buzzfeed really feels like an "ends justify the means" kind of business. Cheap, tabloid news funding "real" journalism. There's merit to the idea, but under the financial pressure of a public corp, my money is that what little actual journalism they do will slowly die off.
- RankingMember 5y ago
  > Cheap, tabloid news funding "real" journalism. There's merit to the idea I respect your opinion but I couldn't disagree more strongly. To me, an outlet publishing trash irrevocably taints anything else they're putting out, however hard-hitting and "real" it may be.
  - iso1631 5y ago
    I suspect you would both agree that "under the financial pressure of a public corp ... what little actual journalism they do will slowly die off"
xwolfi 5y ago
This is completely false, I work in banking and I remember being super excited by the FinCEN files, but it was utterly ridiculous! They pumped it up just to tell you our own compliance department was reporting a lot of things... like dudes really, yes you got a leak of the official documents we send to the frigging regulator... this is the opposite of hiding things, I could not believe it. And of course it had no effect because all it did was hamper investigations !! Absolute trash honestly :( The poor girl who did the "podcast" to try to explain it sounded so ignorant, I was like "this person has no idea what a financial crime is or what a bank would do to hide it". "Look HSBC reported a drug cartel used it to do that and look look they told the regulator"... huuuuh... where's the problem here ? How is HSBC robbing anyone ? Is HSBC really complicit of selling drugs here ? :D (I do accept their critic HSBC's compliance dpt was slow in implementing the regulation)
mypastself 5y ago
They were starting to cultivate the image of publishing serious investigative journalism, but I stopped paying attention after the Steele Dossier debacle. I’d have to peruse the links on that page more carefully to determine whether or not the content is worthwhile, but it’s telling that the latest featured longform article is over a year old. Likely a sign of where their priorities lie.
thenanyu 5y ago
I don’t get why people buy into this narrative. 5-10% of the content the BF organization puts out is respectable. Ok, it’s still 90% trash. The markets are treating it as such.

JohnWhigham 5y ago

And when ad revenue dries up, the first thing to be shuttered will be that.

sodality2 5y ago
Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate but I've got mixed feelings as clearly the model is not terrible, and they're still funding investigative journalism.

throwaway894345 5y ago

I remember Buzzfeed News stoking up drama whenever they could, but maybe they’ve turned a corner since I stopped paying them attention. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/first-they-came-for-our-venti-frappuccinos https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/first-they-ca... > PEOPLE ARE MAD. FURIOUS.

sodality2 5y ago
Yeah, if an article has single sentences of bold text between tweets or images, it's a Bad Buzzfeed article. That's definitely a prime example of crappy journalism. There's so many reasons why it's not good but when you realize it's marketed to 14-26 year olds, it makes a bit more sense.

1123581321 5y ago

Both sides of Buzzfeed deserve criticism.

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6f4f06c00484d34 5y ago

>some of buzzfeed is alright well, I'm sure that some of dailymail, rt, breitbart, etc, is alright too. does it matter? whatever that particular branch of that outlet is doing, it is owned by the same vile individuals as the rest of that conglomerate that sows division and discord for profit. buzzfeed and its likes on both ends of the horseshoe deserve all the hate they get and more.

paul7986 5y ago
They were the first to pump out and up that Clinton paid for Steele Dossier / the dumb trump Pee pee tape thing. YEt they even noted it was not verified yet all left outlets picked it up and acted like it was nonfiction. Anyone who believes that stuff (Hilary clinton pizza parlor pedo ring .. lmao to Hunter Biden narrative the right pushed lol) needs a life outside of for profit reality TV oops i mean for profit manipulated, biased media. There's zero objectivity with that garbage! Think CNN might be trying to change it's course possibly with the firing of Coumo whose brother was probably forced out due to politics (Trump had it out for him). Not that I'd ever watch or read CNN or any of them again.
- ameliaquining 5y ago
  The Steele dossier was being circulated among officials in Washington and they were taking it into account when dealing with things like law enforcement investigations into Trump. That, in and of itself, makes it newsworthy and creates a public interest in knowing what's in it, regardless of whether its claims are true or not.
  - paul7986 5y ago
    all of it's claims are true? Did HIlary Clinton not fund it? No left or right bias here ... only objectivity! Hbu?
  - pessimizer 5y ago
    Every news outlet excepting Buzzfeed disagreed with your philosophy of newsworthiness, and it led to years of political catastrophe and public opinion of journalism reaching its nadir.

sofard 5y ago

Buzzfeed really feels like an "ends justify the means" kind of business. Cheap, tabloid news funding "real" journalism. There's merit to the idea, but under the financial pressure of a public corp, my money is that what little actual journalism they do will slowly die off.

RankingMember 5y ago
> Cheap, tabloid news funding "real" journalism. There's merit to the idea I respect your opinion but I couldn't disagree more strongly. To me, an outlet publishing trash irrevocably taints anything else they're putting out, however hard-hitting and "real" it may be.
- iso1631 5y ago
  I suspect you would both agree that "under the financial pressure of a public corp ... what little actual journalism they do will slowly die off"

xwolfi 5y ago

This is completely false, I work in banking and I remember being super excited by the FinCEN files, but it was utterly ridiculous! They pumped it up just to tell you our own compliance department was reporting a lot of things... like dudes really, yes you got a leak of the official documents we send to the frigging regulator... this is the opposite of hiding things, I could not believe it. And of course it had no effect because all it did was hamper investigations !! Absolute trash honestly :( The poor girl who did the "podcast" to try to explain it sounded so ignorant, I was like "this person has no idea what a financial crime is or what a bank would do to hide it". "Look HSBC reported a drug cartel used it to do that and look look they told the regulator"... huuuuh... where's the problem here ? How is HSBC robbing anyone ? Is HSBC really complicit of selling drugs here ? :D (I do accept their critic HSBC's compliance dpt was slow in implementing the regulation)

mypastself 5y ago

They were starting to cultivate the image of publishing serious investigative journalism, but I stopped paying attention after the Steele Dossier debacle. I’d have to peruse the links on that page more carefully to determine whether or not the content is worthwhile, but it’s telling that the latest featured longform article is over a year old. Likely a sign of where their priorities lie.

thenanyu 5y ago

I don’t get why people buy into this narrative. 5-10% of the content the BF organization puts out is respectable. Ok, it’s still 90% trash. The markets are treating it as such.