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buzzfeed news shut down a while ago. they were doing really good work for a few years, but for the last couple years the "buzzfeed news" site has been taken ov
by notatoad 4y ago
buzzfeed news shut down a while ago. they were doing really good work for a few years, but for the last couple years the "buzzfeed news" site has been taken over by the regular buzzfeed content and the actual journalism has dried up.
shutting it down just seems like a formality at this point.
- i80and 4y agoI remember visiting the BuzzFeed office back in '13 and hearing about how the BuzzFeed-y entertainment stuff was just a means to fund the actual hard hitting journalism. "Funny" how it panned out.
- hbn 4y agoThat was the line that was repeated for years, but it just made me wonder why they didn't put out the news under a completely separate branding. The word "BuzzFeed" inherently sounds like low-brow, unprofessional shlock. You should not be experiencing a "buzz" when reading the news. It shouldn't be an endless "feed" of throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks content to keep my monkey brain stimulated.
- notatoad 4y agoi followed a bunch of buzzfeed news people on twitter during their heyday and always got the impression that a lot of it was a vanity thing to prove that buzzfeed could do real news. picking a name that wasn't intentionally buzzfeed-y would have been admitting defeat.
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